 | 1830 - 696 pàgines
...worthy of notice — Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction — he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from wo Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath oflife. At the corner of one of the streets an apartment is shown, in which the renowned Calvin is... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 pàgines
...advancement of science.— " Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from wo Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched." Gibbon, Voltaire, and Madame de Stael, made it the country of their adoption.... | |
 | William Howitt - 1842 - 474 pàgines
...sacrificed all rest. Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from wo Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched ; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pàgines
...sacrificed all rest. LXXVIL Here the self- torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he ihe Greeks of the present century. "Ay,1' which made him wretched ; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 570 pàgines
...Rousseau and Lake Leman : "Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction! he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from wo Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched ; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pàgines
...sacrificed all rest. Lxxvri. Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from wo Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched; yet ho knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pàgines
...to be glorious ; 'twas a foolish quest, The which to gain and keep, he sacrificed all rest. LXXVII. Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The...affliction, ho who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched ; yet he kneip How... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pàgines
...sacrificed all rest. LXXVII. Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from wo Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and cast O'er erring deeds and... | |
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Here the self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction, he who threw Enchantment over passion, and from wo Wrung overwhelming eloquence, first drew The breath which made him wretched ; yet he knew How to make madness beautiful, and... 