 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then...  The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the Lives of ... - 184 페이지1794전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 220 페이지
...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 chemist, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking Besides ten thousand... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 페이지
...seemed tobe 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...moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon. JOHN DRYDEN, (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist, critic. "Absalom and Achitophel," pt. 1,1.545-50(1681).... | |
 | Denis Mack Smith - 1997 - 556 페이지
...tradition, at another the herald of a new age. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrongi Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of...moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon. At once revolutionary and conservative, Catholic and an ti religious, socialistic and bourgeois, the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 페이지
...seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinlons, always in the wrong; Was everything 3027 Absalom and Achitophel In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded, but... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 페이지
...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...moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. 1189 Absalom and Achitophel In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded, but... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 페이지
...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...moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. kert: twist together. Gk khurtos, L cratis: wickerwork. L crassus: thick, solid. cartilage, cartilaginous,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2001 - 356 페이지
...opinions — always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long ; Who, in the course oj one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then, all for women, painting, Jiddling, drinking; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. DRYDEN. WE must now transport... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 페이지
...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...moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: 550 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 페이지
...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...moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: 550 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff - 2004 - 370 페이지
...he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankinds 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 Chymist, Fidler, States-man, and Buffoon. (2:21,11.545-50) When Dryden later boasted of this passage,... | |
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