 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 стор.
...is yet too long and too coarse for insertion here. The following lines, therefore, must suffice :— A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome 7 Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by fits, and nothing long ; But in... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1826 - 230 стор.
...memory, who retain information a week old, may recollect, in my last number, a portrait of Meander — " A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Who, in the course of one revolving moon, Was poet, painter, lover, and buffoon ; Then all... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 стор.
...yet too long and too coarse for insertion here. The following lines, therefore, must suffice : — A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiffin opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by fits, and nothing long ; But in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 310 стор.
...little elevated,) " it is an impudent satire on glorious John, but he tickled Buckingham off for it— ' In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various ' " " Hold your peace," said Bunce, drowning the voice of the admirer of Dryden in louder and more... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommerlin Verplanck - 1827 - 332 стор.
...You are the very Zimri of Dryden's glorious satire." (t In the first rank of these did Zimri standV A man so various that he seemed to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome." Thus musing and quoting 1 rejoined my friends; whom, by the way, I did not let into the whole... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 стор.
...parallel character, that is wonderfully well-finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation : 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 every... | |
 | 1830 - 602 стор.
...speaking of the mutability of man, says — nil fitit unquam sic impar sibi — and Dryden's lines — Л man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing lung ; But... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 стор.
...more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. 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 nt Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 стор.
...Hydra moro Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. 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 every... | |
 | 1849 - 468 стор.
...Common Prayer." 1 See the character of Buckingham, as "Zimri," in Dryden's " Absalom and Achitophel" '' A man so various that he seemed to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was eve^rthing by starts, and nothing long, Who in... | |
| |
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, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was... 
