 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...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 531860Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...BUCKINGHAM. 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 every thing by starts and nothing long ; But,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...by his own proper light. CHARACTEB. OF VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. (From 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... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1860 - 264 pages
...Mathews, when occupied in the composition of the ' Memoirs' of her husband,* the eminent comedian,— " A man so various, that he seemed to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome." At No. 33 died Madame Delille, in 1857, at an advanced age. This lady was the mother of the... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...the other side of the Channel — in England. And a strange character have we to deal with : — ' 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,... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - London (England) - 1860 - 264 pages
...Nurse in ' Eomeo and Juliet.' position of the 'Memoirs' of her husband,* the eminent comedian, — " A man so various, that he seemed to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome." At No. 33 died Madame Delille, in 1857, at an advanced age. This lady was the mother of the... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1898 - 632 pages
...Buckingham, might with equal aptitude have been applied to the second Earl of Bristol. He was, indeed, " A man so various, that he seemed to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome." Yet among the various qualities presented to us with all the changing rapidity of a kaleidoscope,... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1861 - 334 pages
...disappearance and his quiet courtesy and remarkably good manners in company. The lines of Dryden — A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but...any relation to himself. He thought some graceful facetiousnoss had presented itself to the mind of the young lady, and that she was amusing herself... | |
 | Woolwich roy. military acad - 1861 - 572 pages
...not why, > Even at the sound himself had made." c 2 " Coming events cast their shadow before." " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one but all Mankind's epitome." 10. For an essay : — Either, — The advantages of an acquaintance with mathematical and... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1861 - 504 pages
...on the other side of the Channel — in England. And a strange character have we to deal with : " A man so various, that he seemed 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,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...' Some of their chiefs were princes of the laud ; 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... | |
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