 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 ページ
...Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; xlii 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 - 1923 - 722 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... | |
 | 1925 - 638 ページ
...consummate ease of these portraits and their wit? — Some of their chiefs were prinres of the land ; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various that he seemed to be No one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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 545 Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 ページ
...more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; seemed to be 545 Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 ページ
...Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; ars; I loiter round my cresses; And out again I curve and flow To jo seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 1258 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... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 244 ページ
...comment on the couplet as a medium for political satire : 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, But in the... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1928 - 1250 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... | |
 | 1908 - 434 ページ
...taste of his quality " in one kind of his poems : — .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... | |
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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... 
