 Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil...  Anecdotes of Polite Literature ... - 36 ページ1764全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 ページ
...With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over...civil That every man with him was God or Devil In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools whom... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 ページ
...With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over...civil That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art ; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools whom... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 ページ
...With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes: So over violent or over...civil That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art; Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools whom... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 ページ
...something new to wish, or to enjoy: Railing and praising were his usual themes ; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over...civil, That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 ページ
...something new to wish, or to enjoy: Railing and praising were his usual themes ; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over...civil, That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded but desert. Beggared by fools, whom... | |
 | Peter Oliver - 1967 - 204 ページ
...bend than the knotted Oak. His Disposition was such, that like Dryden's Duke of Buckingham, he was So over violent or over civil That every Man with him was God or Devil.19 Such a Character as this it was dangerous to trust to; & the surest Method to secure him,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 ページ
...if we have to borrow the money to do it with. Artemus Ward (1834-1867) American journalist Extremism So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil. John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist I would remind you that extremism in the defense of... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 ページ
...to enjoy! Railing and Praising were his usual Theams; And Both (to shew his Judgment) in Extreams: So over Violent, or over Civil, That every Man, with him, was God or Devil. In squand'ring Wealih was his peculiar Art: Nothing went unrewarded, but Desert. Begger'd by Fools, whom... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 ページ
...she lived there. QUENTIN CRISP (b. 1 908). British aulhof . The Naked Civil Servanf, ch. 3(1968). 2 JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700). English poei, dramatist, crilic. Absalom and Achilophet, pi. 1 . 3 I would... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 ページ
...the Judge." It works brilliantly in defining the paradoxes of human character; again, Dryden's Zimri: "So over Violent, or over Civil, / That every man, with him, was God or Devil." And for the elegant brutality of realistic assessment, the couplet is unsurpassed: See how the World... | |
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