 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 páginas
...mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; 650 Then all for flirting, painting, riming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | 1877 - 362 páginas
...mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinious, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long, But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. '» DRYDEN, Absalom, And all may do what has by MAN been done. YOUNG, Night Tfumghts. — And what... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 páginas
...epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and butl'oon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in... | |
 | 1878 - 446 páginas
...mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy! Eailing and praising... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 páginas
...mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 páginas
...epitome: s Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; * * » » » Bless'd madman, who could every hour employ, 10 With something new to wish, or to enjoy!... | |
 | Boys - 1880 - 362 páginas
...epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for woman, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 páginas
...mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | Horace - 1881 - 420 páginas
...and Achitophel,' concluding with the lines : — " Was everything by starts, and nothing long, But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." t Cowper's lines in "The Task" (Sofa) present us with a kindred picture : — And this old sinner,... | |
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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 long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all... 
