| Francis Parkman - 1852 - 466 páginas
...heads toward Fort Laramie, then about seven hundred miles to the westward. CHAPTER V. THE 'BIG BLUE.' " A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...epitome, Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long, But in the space of one revolving moon, Was gamester, chemist,... | |
| John Dryden - 1852 - 378 páginas
...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 ev'ry thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
| Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 páginas
...which influence your choice. DRYDEN: ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. 10. 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 thing by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler,... | |
| 1852 - 892 páginas
...difference,") the celebrated lines of Dryden are not inapplicable to the subject of our notice : " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." It was his happy destiny to cultivate assicliously the powers of an acute intellect, and... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 310 páginas
...And we can thus in a lesser degree say of every one what Dry den said of the Duke of Buckingham : " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." I. II. III. Dramatic art ; Epic art ; Lyrical art. Present ; Past ; Future. Plurality; Totality;... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 330 páginas
...And we can thus in a lesser degree say of every one what Dry den said of the Duke of Buckingham : " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." III. Lyrical art. Future. Unity. I. Such is a tabular view of the meanings which we have... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 páginas
...Here they be : " In the first rank of these dirt Zimri stand : A man so various, that he seemed to bo Not one, but all mankind's 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 chemist, fiddler,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - 610 páginas
...the Duke of Buckingham as painted by Dryden — " A man so various that he secm'd to be Not one, bat all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by turns, but nothing long/7 Bob Multiform was not destined to reverse the usual fate of his class. His... | |
| Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 568 páginas
...137. Dryden's character of him is in these lines : — " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but...epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long, Bnt. in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler,... | |
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