 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...  Classical and Foreign Quotations: A Polyglot Manual of Historical and ... - Page 108edited by - 1904 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...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 by starts, and nothing long; But in... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land: In the first rank of these did Zimri stand;0 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... | |
 | Niall Rudd - History - 2005 - 232 pages
...sketch of Tigellius (Sat. j.3.1-19)43 which was later elaborated by Dryden in his portrait 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, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in... | |
 | Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 894 pages
...appropriate, too good. ED: Jowett's two-line quotation from John Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" was: A man so various that he seemed to be Not one but all mankind's epitome. On revision he dropped this favourable reference to the character, Zimni (lines 545-46), for... | |
 | Joseph Roach - History - 2007 - 284 pages
...inspire: 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 by starts, and nothing long: But, in... | |
 | Jerome Meckier, Bernfried Nugel - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 244 pages
...cartographer, a designer of mechanical toys and of war-machines, fantastic in their ingenuity. To them he was "a man so various that he seemed to be not one, but all mankind's epitome;" a dilettante expending himself fruitlessly in a thousand different directions. It is only... | |
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