 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 748 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... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - 1901 - 556 ページ
...stands side by side with his study of Shaftesbury. " 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... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1903 - 378 ページ
...their pains." Dryden's portrait of him in Absalom and Achitophel is perhaps his very finest : — " 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 Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 ページ
...Horace. Ben Jonson introduced Tigellius into his ' ' Poetaster " which was put on the stage in 1601. 4 " 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. to introduce... | |
 | 1905 - 408 ページ
...rebaptize. r . _ Andrew Maruell. 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... | |
 | 1906 - 810 ページ
...than stone or brick, Has a propensity to stick. LOWELL, Letter from Boston, lines 135-140 Epitome. — 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... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 326 ページ
...Dryden Character of 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... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - 476 ページ
...He criticized Dryden and was the enemy of Clarendon. 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... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 ページ
...natural instinct they change their lord. ZIMRI SOME of their chiefs were princes of the land : 543 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... 
