...full of scorn for the man who could survive his fall ; and the scorn has a moral judgement in it : All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the...world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean. As a whole the ode is rather schoolboyish, at once careless and declamatory. And no schoolboy would...

...The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung ; All 1842. MORTE D' ARTHUR 3o all day long tbs noise of...winter sea, Until King Arthur's table, man by man, I And Monarchs bow'd the trembling limb, And thank'd him for a throne ! Fair Freedom ! we may hold...

...The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung ; All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the...of a thing so mean ; And Earth hath spilt her blood forliim. Who thus can hoard his own 1 And Monarchs bow'd the trembling limb, And thank'd hirn for a...

...The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unwrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean. Passion, sensibility,...

...wrung— Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clang ; All Evil Spirit as thon art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrunp ; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean ; X. And Earth...

...'Thus saith the Lord, the heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool' (66: 1) - for hyperbole: To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean; (lines 79-80) Throughout the 'Ode', Byron both inflates and deflates Napoleon. His 'want' of a 'hero'...

...thunderbolt is wrung 75 Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; IX All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; 80 To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean; And Earth hath spilt...

...thrones,/ who strew 'd our earth with hostile bones,/ And can he thus survive? [...] And earth hath spitt her blood for him,/ Who thus can hoard his own!/ And Monarchs bow'd the trembling limh/And thank 'd himfor a throne!); auch Childe Harold 's Pilgrimage III 37. Str....

...The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the...hath been The footstool of a thing so mean; And Earth has spilt her blood for him, Who thus can hoard his own! And Monarchs bowed the trembling limb, And...

...withstand the shock?" (XVI/1,2) In der IX. Strophe wird das Mitgefühl sogar explizit angesprochen: "All evil spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung;" (IX/5-7) Zusammenfassend kann man sagen, daß Napoleon, der etwas brisante Held, eine optimale Basis...