 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 chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all...  Ben Jonson to Dryden - Página 442editado por - 1880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1847 - 526 páginas
...PATTISON. 13. A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one but ail mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Spectator. 14. The way to conquer men is by their passions : Catch but the ruling foible of their hearts,... | |
 | 1847 - 540 páginas
...PATTISON. 13. 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 everything by starts, and...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Spectator. 14. The way to conquer men is by their passions : Catch but the ruling foible of their hearts,... | |
 | James Thorne - 1847 - 480 páginas
...epitome :" though he somewhat qualifies the praise — if praise it be— in the next lines : — " Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything...moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." (Absalom and Achitophel.) And what follows is well known. The worst that can fairly be said of him... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...Was ev'rything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, o be there. Among the beds of lilies I Have sought...would rise, Find it, although before mine eyes ; Fo ev'ry hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 334 páginas
...pleasure. He is now best known from Dryden's masterly portrait of him in the ' Absalom and Achitophel.' " A man so various, that he seemed to be, Not one, but...long ; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1849 - 440 páginas
...OP BUCKINGHAM. [This is the Duke of Buckingham, who survives in the satires of Dry den and Pope : " A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by turns, and nothing long." The following letter was written probably early in 1666, when, having fallen... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1850 - 996 páginas
...The Rehearsal ;" and in return Drydcn thu» describes him as Zimi in Absalom and Achitophcl." — " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but...epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Wss chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | 1851 - 604 páginas
...manuscript. I will at all events try the experiment. Here they be : " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various, that he seemed to be Not...long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...manuscript. I will at all events try the experiment. Here they be : " In the first ranis; of these did Zimri stand: A man so various, that he seemed to be Not...epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,.... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 páginas
...Spectator. 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 everything by starts, and...Besides ten thousand freaks, that died in thinking; Bless'd madman, who could every hour employ In something new to wish, or to enjoy! In squand'ring wealth... | |
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