Question 689: A whole lot of babble?

"From the poetry of __Y__ they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,—a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour’s wife."
 - X on Y


"The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little."
- X on Z


Y and Z have been previous answers.


Id X, Y and Z.



ANSWER:


X - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay [ LORD MACAULAY]

Y -  Lord Byron
Z - Horace Walpole