 | English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...: 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 start.-, und nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | 1827 - 404 pages
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 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 446 pages
...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 thing by starts, and nothing long : But, in the course of one revolving moon, , Was chemist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 366 pages
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 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1831 - 542 pages
...profligate nobleman , is thus graphically described by Dryden ; " 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, Who in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...of the land ; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be nt Not one, but all mankind's 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, statesman,... | |
 | Mme. Charlotte Fiske (Bates) Rogé - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...poets yet! JOHN DRYDEN. [From " Absalom and AchitopM."} A CHARACTER. 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 chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1837 - 294 pages
...and contradictory character. CHARACTER OP THE DDKE OF BUCKINGHAM. 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 in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...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, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
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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... 
