 | Matthew Prior - 1892 - 422 páginas
...Buckingham, 16271688, author of The Rehearsal. The original, in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, of Zimri, " Who in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon," an extremely profligate man both in his life and writings, " that soul of whim," and " lord of useless... | |
 | 1901 - 560 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. Crisp use of the heroic couplet like this was something new to the literary world. The poem had a tremendous... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 194 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 ; 550 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | 1908 - 434 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. An example of his gentler manner may be found in his picture of the swallow taken from " The Hind and... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 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, Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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; . . . The description of Monmouth (as Absalom) courting the people is done with a characteristic mixture of admiration... | |
 | Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - 380 páginas
...Absalom: "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, States-man, and Buffoon ..." (547ff.). Indeed, much of the satiric rhetoric in Absalom draws on the rough matter of personal... | |
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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... 
