 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pagina’s
...seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pagina’s
...nothing long; But, in the coarse of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : . Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Bless'd madman ! who could ever)' hour employ, With something new, to wish or to... | |
 | 1794 - 450 pagina’s
...stand: A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opimons, always in the wrong ; Was ev'ry thing by starts, and...long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : 1 hen all for women, painting, rhiming, drinking : Besides... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 312 pagina’s
...he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epiiome. Stiff in opinion, 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, rhiming, drinking, Besides ten thousand... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 582 pagina’s
...seeni'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | 1803 - 412 pagina’s
...seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong : Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fidler, statesman, and buftbon: Then all for women, painting, rhiming, drinking- i Besides... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pagina’s
...happiness, " Bur, in the course of one revolving moon, " Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : " Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking ; " Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking." WENTWORTH DILLON, Earl of Roscemmtn, contemporary with BUCKINGHAM, was also a man... | |
 | 1803 - 402 pagina’s
...seera'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolvmg moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Then all for women, paintings, rhyming,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 532 pagina’s
...to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every tiling by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, , 'Was Chemist, Fiddler, Statesman, and Buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 468 pagina’s
...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...moon, Was chymist, fidler, statesman, and buffoon. In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded, but desert ! Beggar' d by fools,... | |
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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... 
