 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...Dryden's masterly portrait of him in the ' Absalom and Achitophel.' " 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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...Dryden's masterly portrait of him in the ' Absalom and Achitophel.' " 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 Bell - Great Britain - 1849 - 440 pages
...Buckingham, who survives in the satires of Dry den and Pope : " 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 turns, and nothing long." The following letter was written probably early in 1666, when,... | |
 | 1849 - 340 pages
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 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1850 - 996 pages
...Drydcn thu» describes him as Zimi in Absalom and Achitophcl." — " A man so various that he seemed to mw 1 @. 4 ( h} v W Q ! (g X -< <! 䙧7 જ N 24 4 xV gf U w 뒱 J } l}a݈ starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Wss chemist, fiddler, statesman and... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...VILLIERS, DUEE OF BUCEINGHAM, DELINEATED AS ZIMRL A man1 so varions that he seemed to be Not one bnt all mankind's epitome ; « Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; Bnt, in the eonrse of one revolving moon, Was ehemist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1851 - 596 pages
...Here they be : " In the first ranis; of these did Zimri stand: A man so various, that he seemed 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,... | |
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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... 
