 A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then...  The Spectator - Página 2071778Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 páginas
...has expressed this very excellently in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ! But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 páginas
...has expressed this very excellently in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ! But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 páginas
...has expressed this very excellently in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thin); by starts, and nothing long ! But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...Dryden has expressed this very excellency in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long! But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | 1830 - 602 páginas
...— nil fitit unquam sic impar sibi — and Dryden's lines — Л man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing lung ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
 | 1833 - 270 páginas
...sacrificed every thing. Dryden, who knew him well, described him as, A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong ; \V;is every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... | |
 | 1836 - 932 páginas
...same founcla tiori : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man »n various, that he seem'd to s which this passion produces, we may usually observe that none ar tin- wrong; Wan every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course, of one revolving moon,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 páginas
...las expressed this very excellently in the character of Zimri: " A man so various, that he seemed to e sometimes employed myself from Charing-Cross to the Royal thin? by starts, and nothing lohf I But in tbe course of one revolving moon. Was chymist, fiddler,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 páginas
...of Bayes, in the " Rehearsal." Dryden limns Villiers thus :— " A man so various that he scem'd to be 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1846 - 482 páginas
...profligate nobleman, is thus graphically described by Dryden: " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's, epitome ; Stiff in...opinion — always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, tut nothing long; Who in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman,... | |
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