| 1854 - 630 páginas
...finished by Mr. Dryden,* and raised upon the Mime foundation : — " In the first rank of these did Zimrif 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,... | |
| John William Cole - 1854 - 218 páginas
...with glory. He died in 1791, at the age of fifty-two." character is a duplicate of Dryden's Zimri— " A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." Invested with absolute power, for inscrutable purposes, we may readily suppose that such... | |
| John William Cole - 1854 - 200 páginas
...glory. He died in 1791, at the age of fifty- two." The character is a duplicate of Dryden's Zimri — " A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." Invested with absolute power, for inscrutable purposes, we may readily suppose that such... | |
| 1855 - 864 páginas
...prefer, and give clearly the reasons which influence your choice. DBYDEN : ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. 10. 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... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 páginas
...Admir'd sueh wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape. Pope's Essay on Man. 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 starte, and nothing long. But in... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 692 páginas
...revenge/; With this manly resolution, he prosecuted his journey to London. .tiff €itiJijhj~(0igIjtlK 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, but nothing long;... | |
| John Dryden - 1855 - 350 páginas
...their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; - -C / • , . 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,... | |
| Brian Vickers - 1986 - 428 páginas
...Girolamo Cardano. Cardano, lists of whose accomplishments 24 tend to make him sound like Dryden's Zimri ("A man so various, that he seem'd to be / Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome," who, "in the course of one revolving Moon, / Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon"),... | |
| Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 páginas
...1631-1700 88 [Of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham who 'made the whole body of vice his study'] 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... | |
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