 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 all...  History of the English Language and Literature - Sida 82efter Robert Chambers - 1837 - 328 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 220 sidor
...oneself and turned into a form of victim humor. Satire (language) 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 chemist, statesman,... | |
 | Michael A. Mullett - 1994 - 116 sidor
...famous depiction of the absurd Whig aristocrat, George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham - 'Zimri': Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was every...long: But in the course of one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon. Dryden also reflected growing scepticism about the Popish... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sidor
...and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, I. 77-80 (1609). Inconsistency 1 A man so various, that he seemed tobe 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, fiddler,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 sidor
...think too little and who talk too much. 1188 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 everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 sidor
...it standing in its place."4 Here are a few of Dryden's fine strokes directed at Buckingham's neck: A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but Mankinds epitome. Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long:... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2001 - 356 sidor
...and of revenge.' With this manly resolution, he prosecuted his journey to London. 262 CHAPTER XXVIII A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but...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... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 sidor
...As Dryden described many of us in Absalom and Achitophel (1681), 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 chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 sidor
...princes of the land: In the first rank of these did Zimri stand;* 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 chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 sidor
...princes of the land: In the first rank of these did Zimri stand;0 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 chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Cheryl Wanko - 2003 - 286 sidor
...him not intimately, was a versatile character, formed by nature on a plan similar to Dryden's Zimri: A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one but all mankind's epitome — But this is not the precise idea . . . The precise idea can be obtained only by the biographer... | |
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