 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 ページ
...Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman,...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... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 ページ
...arrangements for lucrative copulation. The allusion to Dryden's couplet from Absalom and Achitophel ("Blest madman, who could every hour employ / With something new to wish or to enjoy") cuts in two ways: Taylor's occupation is foolish, yet he is genuinely "blest" in possessing a benign... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 ページ
...revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, States-man, and Buffoon; Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking, Besides ten thousand Freaks that died in Thinking. Blest Madman, who eould every Hour employ. With Something New to wish, or to enjoy! Railing and Praising were his usual... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 220 ページ
...by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. (John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel") Satire is one of the most important literary forms of humor... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 ページ
...Achitophei. A man so various, that he seem'd to he Not one, but all Mankinds Epitome. Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon: Then all for Women, Painting,...Rhyming, Drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. ;liaes 345ff.) By coincidence, Dryden's lines have here a peculiarly Byronic cadence,... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 ページ
...staccato beat of isolated words in combat: ] Zimri ] ... in course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women,...thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman . . . [549-553] The whole structural design of the poem consists in 1) the unified, regular narrative... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 ページ
...nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: 550 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blessed madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy! Railing and praising... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 ページ
...nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: 550 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides...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,... | |
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Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. 
