 | Literature - 1841 - 500 pages
...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, ndler, statesman and buffoon. Thon all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...epitome t Stiff lu opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything hy starts, and nothing Ion»; Hut in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler,...that died In thinking. Blest madman, who could every huur employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy ! Hailing and praising were his usual theme«,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...aeera'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong; Was every thing of Satan, that Death appeared soon after he was cast...torments. The description of the gates is very poetical, dy'd in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 770 pages
...Stiff in opinions— always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long; Who, in tbe course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,...statesman, and buffoon; Then, all for women, painting, fiddling, drinking; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. DRYDEN. E must now transport the... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything by fits, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was poet, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides a... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Will - 1843 - 428 pages
...Buckingham, who figured so conspicuously in the reign of Charles II., and who, in the language of Dryden, " Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." Some of the prominent leaders in the French Revolution,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was ev'rything e time : So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many...contemplate ; So many hours must I sport myself ; So m drinkin::. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could ev'ry hour employ... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...execution. Dryden, it wil be remembered, described Buckingham in the character of Zimri as one who In the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. He wrote the fashionable verses of his time from an overweening conceit which would not suffer him... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...character of the Duke of Buckingham:— A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, »...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...line (the last but three), is to be found in his immortal character of the Duke of Buckingham : — Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could... | |
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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... 
