 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...the human mind. This is the reason why folk are never weary of talking, reading, and writing about a man — " So various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." 495. Johnson's Courtship. I have often heard my mother say she perfectly remembered Johnson's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...believing right. Such were the tools : but a whole Hydra moro Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...helieving right. Such were the tools : hut a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In...did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to he Not one, hut all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing hy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...happy sketch of a wayward, eccentric, and contradictory character. CHARACTER OF THE DOKE OP BUCKINGHAM. A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 294 pages
...happy sketch of a wayward, eccentric, and contradictory character. CHARACTER OP THE DDKE OF BUCKINGHAM. A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but...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,... | |
 | Fashion - 1849 - 468 pages
...Buckingham, as "Zimri," in Dryden's " 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 eve^rthing by starts, and nothing long, Who in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Robert Bell - Poets, English - 1839 - 430 pages
...of its production, t * The character of Buckingham is drawn in the celebrated lines beginning — " Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In...various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome," &c. The Rehearsal did not banish heroic plays from the stage with such complete effect as... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Science - 1986 - 428 pages
...Girolamo Cardano. Cardano, lists of whose accomplishments 24 tend to make him sound like Dryden's Zimri ("A man so various, that he seem'd to be / Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome," who, "in the course of one revolving Moon, / Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon"),... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...1631-1700 88 [Of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham who 'made the whole body of vice his study'] A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but...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,... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...Achitophel the notorious description of George Villicrs, Duke of Buckingham (himself a satirist), as Zimri: In the first Rank of these did Zimri stand: A Man...various, that he seem'd to be Not one. but all Mankind's Epitome. StitTin Opinions, always in the Wrong; Was Everything by Starts, and Nothing long: But, in... | |
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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 everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... 
