 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 ページ
...force leaves us no time to doubt their truth : — " 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, bat all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 912 ページ
...little 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 ページ
...antithesis ? II.—ZIMRI (THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM). 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 ページ
...3 in the infamy of his nature. JOHN DRYDBN. THE CHARACTER OF ZIMRI.* [From .Absalom and AclMaphel.] 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... | |
 | John Goss - 1891 - 272 ページ
...Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, is thus portrayed:— "Some of their chiefs were princes in 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 opinion, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | William Wheeler - 1892 - 200 ページ
...151, p. 223. Will Sprightly^ a leader of fashion in dress. 461-2-8. Sec also IMMORALITY. The unstable. "In the first Rank of these did Zimri stand : A Man so various, that he cciiid to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff ut Opinions, always in the wrong ,* JI 'as ei'ry... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 568 ページ
...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 342 ページ
...in the infamy of his nature. JOHN DRYDEN. THE CHARACTER OF ZiMRi. 4 [From Absalom and Achitophel.] 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 530 ページ
...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... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1895 - 228 ページ
...corroborate the main features of Dryden's magnificent portrait of Zimri in " Absolom and Achitophel": " 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... | |
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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... 
