 The one was fire and fickleness, a child, Most mutable in wishes, but in mind, A wit as various, - gay, grave, sage, or wild, Historian, bard, philosopher, combined; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents: But his own Breathed...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 199edited by - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 560 pages
...philosopher combin'd; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents: but his own Breath'd most in ridicule, — which, as the wind Blew where...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...---gay, grave, sage, or wild,--- Historian, bard, philosopher, combined; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own...Now to o.erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. " The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pages
...Historian, bard, philosopher, combined ; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talent* : but his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which,...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. ' The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...gay, grave, sage; or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher, combined; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents: But his own...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. cvir. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher, combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own...where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'ei throw a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVII. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 476 pages
...wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined: H« multiplied himself among mankind, 2Q4 SCEPTICISM. The Proteus of their talents ; but his own Breathed...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne." • To render this encomiastic description more characteristic of .the object, and more offensive to... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined: He, multiplied himself among mankind, '••ITie Proteus of their talents ; but his own • • Breathed...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne." •!'•'• •- ' ('-"fili'iM -. To render this encomiastic description more characteristic of the:... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...their talents ; but his own Breathed most, in rirlieule — which, as the wind, Blew where it lasted, laying all things prone Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne." To render this encomiastic description more characteristic of the object, and more offensive to good... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, hard, philosopher, comhined ; He multiplicd himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. CVIL The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom -with each studious year, In meditation... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...himself among mankind, The Protens of their talents: but his own Breathed most in ridicule — which, us the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things...Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne. The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year, In meditation... | |
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