 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 páginas
...made Dryden satirise himself6. i 1 Vide Memoires de Grammont. * Zimri in Absalom and Achitophel. f " A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but...mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, He 's every thing by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 páginas
...long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : la the first rank of these did /imri stand , A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Still' in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 468 páginas
...Memoires de Gramraont. 4 Zimri, in Absalom and Achitophel. (" A man so various, that he seeiu'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, He's every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist,... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 páginas
...right. Such were the tools ; but a whole hydra more Remains, of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In...epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course nf one revolving moon, Was chemist, tiddler,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 340 páginas
...enjoyment in their own minds. Mr. Dryden has expressed this very excellently 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 páginas
...believing right. Such were the tools ; but a whole Hydra morq Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri j; stand; A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 páginas
...believing right. Such were the tools ; but a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri J stand ; A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 322 páginas
...character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation : In 1 lie first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various, that he seera'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong . Was every... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 páginas
...character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation. " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man...epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every tiling by starts, and nothing long ; E 2 174 THE SPECTATOR. No. 163. But in the course of one... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1809 - 344 páginas
...courted. History of his own Times, Vol. I. p. 137. Dryden's character of him is in these lines : ' In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man...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 chymist, fiddler,... | |
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In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; 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 chymist,... 
