 | 1854 - 630 ページ
...Was everything by starts, and nothing long : But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women,...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 ページ
...Was every thing by starts, and nothing long : But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was Chemist, Fiddler, Statesman, and Buffoon: Then all for women,...rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. Blest madman, who cou'd every hour employ, With somcthing new to wish, or to enjoy... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 300 ページ
...results of some secret nympholepsy, or some sacred Pythian inspiration : — 1 Blest madman ! that could every hour employ In something new to wish or to enjoy ; Now all for rhyming, wenching, fiddling, drinking ; Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 ページ
...Was every thing by start*, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Wua Chemist, Fiddler, Statesman, and Buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ton thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. Blest madman, who eon'd every hour employ, With something... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 292 ページ
...results of some secret nympholepsy, or some sacred Pythian inspiration : — * Blest madman ! that could every hour employ In something new to wish or to enjoy ; Now all for rhyming, wenching, fiddling, drinking ; Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking... | |
 | George deF. Lord - 1963 - 608 ページ
...wrong; Was everything by starts and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy! There is no need... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 220 ページ
...by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. (John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel") Satire is one of the most important literary forms of humor... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 ページ
...Achitophei. A man so various, that he seem'd to he Not one, but all Mankinds Epitome. Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon: Then all for Women, Painting,...Rhyming, Drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. ;liaes 345ff.) By coincidence, Dryden's lines have here a peculiarly Byronic cadence,... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 ページ
...staccato beat of isolated words in combat: ] Zimri ] ... in course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman . . . [549-553] The whole structural design of the poem consists in 1) the unified, regular... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 ページ
...nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: 550 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blessed madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy! Railing and praising... | |
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Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. 
