 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...sprouting heads too long to seore. Some of their ehiefs were prinees of the land ; In the first rank the west emits his ev'ning ray, Earth's universal faee, deep hid, eourse of one revolving moon, M'as ehemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting,... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 páginas
...ГЕ1) DUKE OF DICKING 11 Л Ы. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, hut all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by start.-, und... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 250 páginas
...for wear, and valued women with Turkish precision ; he was fiery, and ever "Stiff in extremes, and always in the wrong,. Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; One day for fiddling, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 páginas
...is wonderfully well-finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various, that...every thing by starts, and nothing long : But, in the course of one revolving moon, , Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women,... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1828 - 346 páginas
...transformations as numerous as those which Dryden celebrates in the Duke of Buckingham ; who — ' Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the coarse of one revolving moon, Was cbymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." though we must acknowledge that the transition from the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...enjoyment in their own minds. Mr. Dryden has expressed this very excellency in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long! But in the course of one... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 páginas
...enjoyment in their own mind>. Mr. Drvdeu has expressed tins very excclleiu-v in the character of Zimri: A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Was every thing by starts, and nothing long! Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, But in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1831 - 542 páginas
...character of this highly-gifted but profligate nobleman , is thus graphically described by Dryden ; " A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but...always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long, Who in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon."... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...poets yet! JOHN DRYDEN. [From " Absalom and AchitopM."} A CHARACTER. A MAN so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: .Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 páginas
...sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be nt Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by... | |
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A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then... 
