 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, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...true plot amongst the false was lost. Absalom Senior. Note XVIII. In Ihejlrst rank oflhese did Zlmri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. — P. 233. This inimitable description refers, as is well known, to the famous George Villiers,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...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...nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...dangerous neighbour. 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,...nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pages
...eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfilness!" Shakespeare, Hen. IV. " 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 epit6meV' Dryden, Abs. and Achit. " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...wn minds. Mr. Dryden has expressed this very xcellently in the character of Zimri ;•(• ( A man M pounds a year ; but he ha cast and been cast so often, that he is not now opinion, always in the wrong, Wu every thing byst*rtstancl nothing long; But in the course of one revolving... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pages
...same foundation : 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,...nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation : In the fir^t rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various, that he seem'd...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,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 pages
...enjoyment in their own minds. Mr. Dryden 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 426 pages
...enjoyment in their own minds. Mr. Dryden 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these r a p Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
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