 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 434 páginas
...Vide Memoires de Gratnmont. * Zimri in Absalom and Achitophel. [" A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, He 's every thing by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Waschymist,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 468 páginas
...to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, He's every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fidler, statesman, and buffoon. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 páginas
...plots wi^h plots so c«ost, That the true plut amongst Uie Uilse was lost. Absalam Senior. Note XVIII. In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man...various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. — P. 233. This inimitable description refers, as is well known, to the famous George Villiers,... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 páginas
...more Remains, of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : 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 every... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 páginas
...amongst the false was lost. Abtalom Sttior, Note XVI 1 1. In tfiejtrst rank of these did Zimri stand ; ,^ man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. — P. 233. This inimitable description refers, as is well known, to the famous George Villiers,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 340 páginas
...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, Wasrhymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 322 páginas
...character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation : In 1 lie first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various, that he seera'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong . Was every... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 páginas
...character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation. " 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 every... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1809 - 344 páginas
...courted. History of his own Times, Vol. I. p. 137. Dryden's character of him is in these lines : ' 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 every... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 páginas
...seem'dto be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in-^bpinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fidler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides... | |
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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 chymist,... 
