 | American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...characters will be as good as manuscript. I will at all events try the experiment. Here they be : " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man...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 long; But in... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1851 - 596 pages
...as pood as manuscript. I will at all events try the experiment. Here they be : " In the first ranis; 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 thing by starts and nothing long; But, in... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...his arm to shake the tree. CHARACTER 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 seem'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was ev'ry... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 600 pages
...his arm to shake the tree. CHARACTER 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 seem'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was ev'ry... | |
 | Thomas Wright, Robert Harding Evans - Caricature - 1851 - 524 pages
...Sunday. 244. PIZARRO CONTEMPLATING OVER THE PRODUCT OF HIS NEW PERUVIAN MINE. June 4th, 1799. SHERIDAN. " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but nil mankind's epitome."* " Whatever Sheridan has done," says Lord Byron, " has/ been par excellence,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...characters will be as good as manuscript. I will at all events try the experiments. Here they be : " In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man...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 long ; But,... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...and spares, But with a lordly rage his hunters tears. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was ev'ry... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Poetics - 1852 - 310 pages
...And we can thus in a lesser degree say of every one what Dry den said of the Duke of Buckingham : " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." I. II. III. Dramatic art ; Epic art ; Lyrical art. Present ; Past ; Future. Plurality; Totality;... | |
 | Ireland - 1852 - 892 pages
...difference,") the celebrated lines of Dryden are not inapplicable to the subject of our notice : " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." It was his happy destiny to cultivate assicliously the powers of an acute intellect, and... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literature - 1852 - 330 pages
...And we can thus in a lesser degree say of every one what Dry den said of the Duke of Buckingham : " A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." III. Lyrical art. Future. Unity. I. Such is a tabular view of the meanings which we have... | |
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