 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 368 trang
...resolution, he prosecuted his journey to London. CHAPTER XXVIII A man so various, that he teem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions...-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... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 220 trang
...oneself and turned into a form of victim humor. Satire (language) 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, statesman,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 trang
...and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, I. 77-80 (1609). Inconsistency 1 A man so various, that he 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 one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 trang
...think too little and who talk too much. 1188 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 everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1998 - 528 trang
...enforced resentful silence, by painting Buckingham in the immortal character of Zimri : In the f1rst 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... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 trang
...it standing in its place."4 Here are a few of Dryden's fine strokes directed at Buckingham's neck: A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but Mankinds epitome. Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long:... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2001 - 356 trang
...and of revenge.' With this manly resolution, he prosecuted his journey to London. 262 CHAPTER XXVIII 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 oj one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 trang
...As Dryden described many of us in Absalom and Achitophel (1681), 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,... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 trang
...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 seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 trang
...princes of the land: In the first rank of these did Zimri stand;0 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,... | |
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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 in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,... 
