 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 452 ページ
...character,1 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 seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - 1898 - 394 ページ
...58 THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (Absalom and Achitophel.) 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... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 450 ページ
...character,1 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 seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 ページ
...the opposition Buckingham is depicted in lines of bitter sarcasm which are a triumph of literary art. 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 - 1898 - 936 ページ
...elevated, "it is an impudent satire on glorious John; but he tickled Buckingham off for it — 1 ' 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 vehement... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 578 ページ
...cro%vd his arm to shake the tree. 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 - 1899 - 346 ページ
...in the infamy of his nature. JOHN DRYDEN. THE CHARACTER OF ZIMRI.* [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 everything... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 ページ
...needful hours of Eest ? Punish a Body which he cou'd not please; Bankrupt of Life, yet Prodigal of ease. 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 ページ
...his arm to shake the tree. THE DUKE OP 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 ページ
...Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. ^ Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; fin 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... 
