 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 76by Alexander Pope - 1854Full view - About this book
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 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...hence alchemy and chemistry; see au I. As Dryden described many of us in Absalom and Achitophel (1681), A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but...moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. kert: twist together. Gk khurtos, L cratis: wickerwork. L crassus: thick, solid. cartilage, cartilaginous,... | |
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...opinions — always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long ; Who, in the course oj one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then, all for women, painting, Jiddling, drinking; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. DRYDEN. WE must now transport... | |
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