...where it listed, laying all things prrne, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In medtiation dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn...

...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvn. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doom'd him to...

...where it lUteth, laying all things prone, — Now to o'urthrow a fool, and now to shake a tluone. CVII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped his weapon uith an edge severe. Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer; The lord of irony, — that master-spell,...

...Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grow from foar, And doom'd him to...

...listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. evn. The olher, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doom'd him to...

...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVII. In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, And shaped...Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell, Which stung his foes to wrath, which grew from fear, And doomed him to...

...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And...wrought, And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, 1 Voltaire and Gibbon. Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master-spell....

...where it listed, laying all things prone,— Now to o'erthrowa fool, and now to shake a throne. cvn. ons, part by part, The glory which at once upon thee...outward sense Is but of gradual grasp— and as Jt edpe severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer ; The lord of irony, — that master- spell,...

...foe to God was ne'er true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does. Ib. vni. 704. He shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. Byron, C./T.in.l07. Thus men too careless of their future state, Dispute, know nothing, and repent...

...be soiled with imperfect thoughts. Byron (" Childe Harold") says of the historian Gibbon that he was Deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year. We are not accustomed to credit the poetical temperament with a disposition of this description ; but...