 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was every thing by starts, and nothing long ! But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation : In the fir^t 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...skulk'd behind the laws. DRYDEN. CHARACTER OF ZIMRI. SOME of their chiefs were 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 every... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; im in thy sphere, seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...' Then 'twould be greater, were it none at all.' " Some of their chiefs were 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, bat all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 292 pages
...rank of these did /imri stand: A man so various, that he seem'd to be - t No. 163. THE SPECTATOR. 7 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...more Remains of sprouting heads too long to seore. Some of their ehiefs were prinees of the land ; sun, Faint, from the west emits his ev'ning ray, Earth's universal fa seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1825 - 434 pages
...little elevated,) " it is an impudent satire on glorious John ; but he tickled Buckingham off for it— In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various " " Hold your peace," said Bunce, drowning the voice of the admirer of Dryden in louder and more vehement... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1826 - 284 pages
...redemption and of revenge." With this manly resolution he prosecuted his journey to London. CHAPTER XII. 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, but nothing long; Who, in the course... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...yet too long and too coarse for insertion here. The following lines, therefore, must suffice : — A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiffin opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by fits, and nothing long ; But in... | |
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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 the course of one revolving moon Was chymist,... 
