| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 páginas
...finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation. " 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 every tiling by starts, and nothing long ; E... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 páginas
...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 Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long, But,... | |
| David Simpson - 1810 - 422 páginas
...friends And fame, this Lord of useless thousands ends." Mr. DRYDEN describes this Nobleman as being — " 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 every thing by starts, and nothing long; But,... | |
| John Monk (of Chester, England.) - 1810 - 118 páginas
...:3iperfectioii3 of your party, and you shall have the praise of , OMNES. sAKE . CAME BATE. TO CAIUS. A man so various, that he seem'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinion, aliitayi in tie wrong, Was eveiy thing by starts, and nothing long i Blot... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 páginas
...well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation. In the first rank of theie 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 every thing by starts, and nothing long : But,... | |
| Anna Seward - 1811 - 424 páginas
...the human mind. This is the reason why folk are never weary of talking, reading, and writing about a man " So various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." Who yearned after a Scotish king, yet detested the Scotish nation ; who worshipped the monarchial... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 páginas
...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 he seem'd to be Not one, hut all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing... | |
| Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 598 páginas
...Achitophel, has given, in the following lines, the character of lord Wharton, who wrote this letter :— " A man so various that he seem'd to be, " Not one, but all mankind's epitome; '* Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, <i Was every thing by starts, and nothing long... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 páginas
...overcharged. * • * * " 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, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by turns and nothing long ; But in... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 páginas
...overcharged. » • » * " 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, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by turns and nothing long; But in... | |
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