 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!  The British Essayists - Page 141edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...dissenting clergymen, expelled by the Act of Conformity. J The Duke of Buckingham. SCQ pote XVIII. Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...dissenting clergymen, expelled by the Act of Conformity. J The D'uke of Buckingham. Sea pote XVIII. Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - France - 1809 - 344 pages
...Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women,...hour employ W^ith something new to wish, or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes : VOL. II.... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...revolving moon, Was chemist, fuller, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhiming, drinking ; Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in...employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy !" C No 163. THURSDAY, September 6, 17U. BY ADDISON. • Si quid ego adfuero, curamve levasso, Que mine... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fidler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting,...rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking." Dillon, earl of Roscommon, contemporary with Buckingham-, vvas also a man of considerable... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...every thing by starts, and nothing long, But, in the course of one revolving Moon, Was chymist, fuller, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting,...hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes ; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 324 pages
...in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long j But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman,...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd iu thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy* !... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 384 pages
...SPECTATOR. No. But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon j Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides...thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ In something new to wish, or to enjoy ! In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 300 pages
...•Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ! But in the course ot' one revolving moon, Was ehymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Then all for women,...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks, that died in thinking: Bless'd madman, who could every hour employ In something new to wish, or to enjoy... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, tidier, statesman and buffoon: Then all for women, painting,...rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking." WENTWORTH DILLON, Earl of Roscommon, contemporary wilh BUCKINGHAM, was also a man... | |
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