 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...Rehearsal) is much briefer than that of Shaftesbury, but no less complex and balanced: 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... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Travel - 1982 - 472 pages
...seven hundred miles to the westward. CHAPTER V. The 'Big Blue.' "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 in the space of one revolving moon, Was gamester, chemist,... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Science - 1986 - 428 pages
...Girolamo Cardano. Cardano, lists of whose accomplishments 24 tend to make him sound like Dryden's Zimri ("A man so various, that he seem'd to be / Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome," who, "in the course of one revolving Moon, / Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon"),... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...notorious description of George Villicrs, Duke of Buckingham (himself a satirist), as Zimri: 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. StitTin Opinions, always in the Wrong; Was Everything by Starts, and Nothing long: But, in... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 368 pages
...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,... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 362 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 2001 - 356 pages
...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...Stiff in opinions — always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long ; Who, in the course oj one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | Cheryl Wanko - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 286 pages
...him not intimately, was a versatile character, formed by nature on a plan similar to Dryden's Zimri: A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one but all mankind's epitome — But this is not the precise idea . . . The precise idea can be obtained only by the biographer... | |
 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 370 pages
...Epilogue). Contrast with this the knowing humour that animates his character of Zimri two years later: A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankinds Epitome. Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long;... | |
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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... 
