 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...hydra more 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 seem'd to be . Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...hydra more 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 seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...hydra more 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 seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1846 - 482 pages
...character of this highly-gifted but profligate nobleman, is thus graphically described by Dryden: " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's, epitome ; Stiff in opinion — always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, tut nothing long;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...of YiUicrs, DuJet of liut-kingham.] [From the same.] Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : ull'd up light. Air, and ye elements ! the eldest birth Of nature's w secm'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was ev'rything... | |
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
...considerable ability ; even Dryden, in the exquisite portrait of him as Zimri, admits that he was " A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome :" though he somewhat qualifies the praise — if praise it be— in the next lines : — "... | |
 | 1847 - 486 pages
...tranquillity ; so that I soon became the fac simile of Dryden's pasquinade upon the royal duke — " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind') epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every thing by (tarts, and nothing... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...pleasure. He is now best known from Dryden's masterly portrait of him in the ' 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... | |
 | Robert Bell - Great Britain - 1849 - 440 pages
...OP BUCKINGHAM. [This is the Duke of Buckingham, who survives in the satires of Dry den and Pope : " 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 turns, and nothing long." The following... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1850 - 996 pages
...The Rehearsal ;" and in return Drydcn thu» describes him as Zimi in Absalom and Achitophcl." — " 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... | |
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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... 
