 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...  The Spectator - Página 334de Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1836 - 556 páginas
...nowhere more faithfully delineated than in " Absalom and Achitophel," under the name of Zimri ; Who in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. He was violently opposed to Clarendon, hated Ormond, and was no friend to Arlington. — Clarendon's... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1836 - 556 páginas
...nowhere more faithfully delineated than in " Absalom and Achitophel," under the name of Zimri ; Who in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. He was violently opposed to Clarendon, hated Ormond, and was no friend to Arlington. — Clarendon's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 páginas
...character. CHARACTER OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in...chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for preaching, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 páginas
...character. CHARACTER OF THE DOKE OP BUCKINGHAM. A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in...chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for preaching, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 páginas
...land; 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...long \ But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon :* Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, [ing,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...princes of the land ; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to he Not one, hut all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing hy starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chvmist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | 1841 - 986 páginas
...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...chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for preaching, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking; In squandering... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...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 for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | 1841 - 500 páginas
...lines. "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...But, in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, ndler, statesman and buffoon. Thon all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1841 - 208 páginas
...beggar, friendless, miserable, and despised : — " Stiff in opinions, always in the wronfr, Was ev'ry thing by starts, and nothing long : But in the course...Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon."— DRYDEN. The younger brother, Lord Francis, was killed near Kingston-upon-Thames, in 1648, at the early... | |
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