 | Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pagina’s
...weigh my 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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pagina’s
...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, that...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,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pagina’s
...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,...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,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 278 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank t course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pagina’s
...laws. DRYDEN. CHARACTER OF ZIMRI. SOME of their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that...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,... | |
 | 1824 - 292 pagina’s
...rank of these did /imri stand: A man so various, that he seem'd to be - t No. 163. THE SPECTATOR. 7 Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions,...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-,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pagina’s
...greater, were it none at all.' " 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, bat all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing... | |
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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 in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then... 
