| 1817 - 628 pages
...transcribe them, and leave our readers to make the application. ' Here the self-torturing sophist, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe...drew The breath which made him wretched : yet he knew Hota to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts, a heavenly hue Of words, like... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...to gain and keep , he sacrificed all rest. LXXVH. Here the self- torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...erring deeds and thoughts, a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes , which o'er them shed tears feelingly and fast LXXVIII.... | |
| William Coxe - 1819 - 760 pages
...retreat, calls to mind the eloquent, the impassioned, but self-torturing sophist, the wild ROUSSEAU. The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...passion, and from woe 'Wrung overwhelming eloquence, yet knew How to make madness beantiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts, a keavenly hue Of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...which to gain and keep, he sacrificed all rest. LXXVII. Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...erring deeds and thoughts, a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly arid fast. IXXVIII.... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...compound of vice, freaks, madness, and vulgarity : Here tin: self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...drew The breath which made him wretched ; yet he knew Mow lo make madness beautiful, and cast Hu love was passion's essence — as ai tree On fire by lightning... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...seductive halo around the merest gratifications of sense: Here the self- torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath that made him wretched ; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...seductive halo around the merest gratifications of sense : Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath that made him wretched , yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...seductive halo around the merest gratifications of sense: Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath that made him wretched ; yet he knew HOw to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...which to gain and keep, he sacrificed all rest. LXXVII. Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew i The breath which made him wretched; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...which to gain and keep, he sacrificed all rest. LXXVII. Here the self torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment...erring deeds and thoughts a heavenly hue Of words, like sunbeams dazzling as they past The eyes, which o'er them shed tears feelingly and famt. LXXVII1.... | |
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