 | Niall Rudd - 2005 - 232 стор.
...sketch of Tigellius (Sat. j.3.1-19)43 which was later elaborated by Dryden in his portrait of Zimri: A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon. After complexity, the divided mind. Because of their imperial... | |
 | Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - 380 стор.
...George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, old literary enemy, gets anything but subtle treatment in Absalom: "Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; / Was everything...Moon, / was Chymist, Fiddler, States-man, and Buffoon ..." (547ff.). Indeed, much of the satiric rhetoric in Absalom draws on the rough matter of personal... | |
 | Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald - 2003 - 894 стор.
...appropriate, too good. ED: Jowett's two-line quotation from John Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" was: A man so various that he seemed to be Not one but all mankind's epitome. On revision he dropped this favourable reference to the character, Zimni (lines 545-46), for... | |
 | Joseph Roach - 2007 - 284 стор.
...inspire: Some of their Chiefs were Princes of the Land: In the first Rank of these did Zimri stand: A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...in the course of one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon: Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking; Besides ten thousand... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 2007 - 329 стор.
...hundred miles to the westward. CHAPTER V. THE "B16 BLOT." A man *o various that Ike seemed to b* Hot one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions,...everything by starts, and nothing long, But, in the space ol one revolving moon, Was gamester, chemist, fiddler, and buffoon. THK great medley of Oregon... | |
 | Jerome Meckier, Bernfried Nugel - 2006 - 244 стор.
...cartographer, a designer of mechanical toys and of war-machines, fantastic in their ingenuity. To them he was "a man so various that he seemed to be not one, but all mankind's epitome;" a dilettante expending himself fruitlessly in a thousand different directions. It is only... | |
 | Robert Pattison - 2008 - 210 стор.
...mature Mary Fairfax married George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, of whom Dryden wrote that he was "Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; / Was everything by starts, and nothing long" (Absalom and Achitophel, 547-548); his pupil was abundantly present in the world of mature corruption... | |
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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... 
