 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, statesman, and buffoon ; Then...  A Manual of English Literature... - Σελίδα 416των Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 547 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 σελίδες
...Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, hat Death appeared soon after he was cast into hell,...torments. The description of the gates is very poetical, dy'd in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 σελίδες
...poet, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman...hour employ, With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his jndgment in extremes. So over violent,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 770 σελίδες
...Stiff in opinions— always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long; Who, in tbe course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,...statesman, and buffoon; Then, all for women, painting, fiddling, drinking; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. DRYDEN. E must now transport the... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1843 - 428 σελίδες
...conspicuously in the reign of Charles II., and who, in the language of Dryden, " Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." Some of the prominent leaders in the French Revolution,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 σελίδες
...one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was ev'rything by starts, many hours must I tend my flock ; So many hours must...contemplate ; So many hours must I sport myself ; So m drinkin::. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could ev'ry hour employ... | |
 | 1874 - 898 σελίδες
...execution. Dryden, it wil be remembered, described Buckingham in the character of Zimri as one who In the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. He wrote the fashionable verses of his time from an overweening conceit which would not suffer him... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 σελίδες
...character of the Duke of Buckingham:— Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Slat madman! who could... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 σελίδες
...character of the Duke of Buckingham : — Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 σελίδες
...arrangements for lucrative copulation. The allusion to Dryden's couplet from Absalom and Achitophel ("Blest madman, who could every hour employ / With something new to wish or to enjoy") cuts in two ways: Taylor's occupation is foolish, yet he is genuinely "blest" in possessing a benign... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 σελίδες
...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, statesman, and buffoon. Absalom and Achitophel I, 545 89 Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual... | |
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