 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 604 sivua
...characters will be as good as manuscript. I will at all events try the experiment. Here they be : " 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 sivua
...characters will be as good as manuscript. I will at all events try the experiments. Here they be : " 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 574 sivua
...elevated,) " it is an impudent satire ou 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... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 568 sivua
...courted." — Burnet's Own Times, vol. ip 137. Dryden's character of him is in these lines : — " 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 every... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 654 sivua
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1853 - 554 sivua
...character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation : 1 In tlio first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various, that ho seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 sivua
...have been drawn exactly from the life. This is it : " 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 VI to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was every... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 sivua
...parallel character, 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 svent'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 sivua
...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 seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
| |
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... 
