 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, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks...  The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Page 334by Joseph Addison - 1811Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...been universally acknowledged to be one of his- happiest performances. In the first rarik of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd...every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the coarse of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : . Then all for women,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 pages
...universally acknowledged to be one of his happiest performances. / • / .'' ' / ' In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man' so various, that he seem'd to be Not on«£ but all "mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts,... | |
 | 1801 - 416 pages
...heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes cf 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 ; SliiF in opinion, always in the wrong; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist,... | |
 | 1803 - 472 pages
...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...nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fidler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhiming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | 1803 - 402 pages
...has expressed this very excellently in the character of Zimri. A man so various, that he seera'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions,...starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolvmg moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Then all for women, paintings, rhyming,... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pages
...thousands ends." Afr. DRYDZN describes this Nobleman as being — " A man so various, that he scem'd to be " Not one, but all mankind's epitome : " Stiff...always in the wrong ; " Was every thing by starts, and nc/thmglong ; E •' But, 33. We have also an uncommon alarm given us in a Letter from, another Nobleman,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 pages
...made Dryden satirise himself6. i 1 Vide Memoires de Grammont. * Zimri in Absalom and Achitophel. f " A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : la the first rank of these did /imri stand , A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Still' in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 434 pages
...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, fidler, statesman, and buffoon. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 468 pages
...Memoires de Gramraont. 4 Zimri, in Absalom and Achitophel. (" A man so various, that he seeiu'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, Was chymist,... | |
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