 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pagina’s
...own despite, Because they could not help believing right. Such were the tools; but a whole hydra more Remains, of sprouting heads too long to score. Some...wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; Hut, in the course of one revolving moon, M'as chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pagina’s
...despite, Because they could not help believing right. Such were the tools : hut a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some...princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Ziuili-Stand : A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: i Stiff in... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pagina’s
...same foundation : In the first rank of these did Zinari stand: A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions,...the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing Ion;; ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pagina’s
...despite, Because they could not help believing right. Such were the tools ; but a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some...princes of the land : /In the first rank of these did ZimriJ stand ; 1 A man so various, that he seem'd to be \Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; i Stiff... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pagina’s
...no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfilness!" Shakespeare, Hen. IV. " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man...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,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pagina’s
...that is 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,...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,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pagina’s
...great, because it is so small," , the duke cried out, ' Then 'twould be greater, were it none at all.' " Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In...: A man so various, that he seem'd to be, Not one, bat all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to seore. Some of their ehiefs were prinees re the languid sun, Faint, from the west emits his ev'ning ray, Earth's universal faee, deep hid, eourse of one revolving moon, M'as ehemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting,... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 pagina’s
...e best liquor La, to be sure !" CHARACTER ОТ THS СК1.КВП А ГЕ1) DUKE OF DICKING 11 Л Ы. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In...; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, hut all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by start.-, und... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1831 - 542 pagina’s
...character of this highly-gifted but profligate nobleman , is thus graphically described by Dryden ; " A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but...always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long, Who in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon."... | |
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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 everything by starts, and nothing long; But,... 
