 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...characters will be as good as manuscript. I will at all events try the experiment. Here they he : " 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...WOLFE. ZIMRI. GEORGE V1LLIERS, DUKE OP BUCKINGHAM. 1682. SOME of their chiefs were princes of the land ; visions fair, what glorious life ? Where thou hast been ? The veil ! seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1872 - 396 pages
...Duke of Buckingham, one of [jp^HlOME of their chiefs were princes of the land ; Kwifn In the firs' 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... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - English language - 1873 - 262 pages
...rhyming couplets, having ten syllables in each line. " 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, bnt all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was ev'rything... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 pages
...may be compared with that by Pope (see p. 438) : — 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...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 545 Not one, but all 'mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...more i 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 • 545 Not one, but all mankind's epitome: I Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...humorous character in Horace is founded upon this unevenness of temper and irregularity of conduct. ****** Instead of translating this passage in Horace", I...character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden n, and raised upon the same foundation. In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 pages
...unevenness of temper and irregularity of conduct. ***** * Instead of translating this passage in Horace n, I shall entertain my English reader with the description...wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden *, and raised upon tne same foundation. !'i the first rank of these did Zimri stand : man so various, that he seem'd to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pages
...unevenness of temper and irregularity of conduct. ****** Instead of translating this passage in Horace n , I shall entertain my English reader with the description...character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden n , and raised upon the same foundation. In the first rank of these did Zimri stand: A man so various,... | |
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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... 
