Double Natured

By the mere force of things, and despite my conscientious efforts to the contrary, I was predestined to become what I am, a member of the romantic school, protesting against romanticism, a Utopian inculcating the doctrine of half-measures, an idealist unsuccessfully attempting to pass muster for a Philistine, a tissue of contradictions, resembling the double-natured hircocerf of scholasticism. ❋ Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 (1897)

He had dwelt long enough in Paris, this double-natured man, this student and creator, this gambler and gallant, to win the friendship of ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

It is surely not without significance that this metempsychosis of genius should have happened in the case of Lionardo, himself the magician of Renaissance art, the lover of all things double-natured and twin-souled. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Here we have formed a new, unlooked-for, monstrous, heterogeneous alliance, -- a double-natured monster, republic above and monarchy below. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)