 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...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,...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, fuller,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 324 pages
...finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation : In the first rank of these did Zirari stand : A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not...epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long j But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...friends And fame, this Lord of useless thousands ends." Mr. DRYDEN describes this Nobleman as being — " A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but...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, tidier,... | |
 | John Monk (of Chester, England.) - Elections - 1810 - 118 pages
...:3iperfectioii3 of your party, and you shall have the praise of , OMNES. sAKE . CAME BATE. TO CAIUS. A man so various, that he seem'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinion, aliitayi in tie wrong, Was eveiy thing by starts, and nothing long i Blot madman, who could... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1810 - 514 pages
...following admirable portrait of him in the character of Zimri : " A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, He's every thing by starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was Chymist,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation. In the first rank of theie did Zimri stand : A man so various, that he seem'd...epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing long : But, in the course of one revolving moon, Wa» Chemist, Fiddler,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...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, hut all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing by starts, and nothing... | |
 | Anna Seward - Authors, English - 1811 - 424 pages
...the human mind. This is the reason why folk are never weary of talking, reading, and writing about a man " So various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." Who yearned after a Scotish king, yet detested the Scotish nation ; who worshipped the monarchial... | |
 | Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 598 pages
...Achitophel, has given, in the following lines, the character of lord Wharton, who wrote this letter :— " A man so various that he seem'd to be, " Not one,...epitome; '* Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, <i Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ; " But, in the course of one revolving moon, " Was... | |
 | Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 602 pages
...lines, the character of lord Wharton, who wrote this letter : — " A man so various that he sccm'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,... | |
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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... 
