 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then...  Milton. Machiavelli. Hallam's Constitutional history. Southey's Colloquies ... - Page 331by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was ev'rything e time : So many hours must I tend my flock ; So many...contemplate ; So many hours must I sport myself ; So m drinkin::. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could ev'ry hour employ... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...execution. Dryden, it wil be remembered, described Buckingham in the character of Zimri as one who In the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. He wrote the fashionable verses of his time from an overweening conceit which would not suffer him... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...in his immortal character of the Duke of Buckingham:— Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But in the...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...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...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking Blest madman ! who could... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...his immortal character of the Duke of Buckingham : — Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But in the...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...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...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...in his immortal character of the Duke of Buckingham:— Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But in the...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Slat madman! who could... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and not/ting long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was...fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women, rhyming, dancing, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 878 pages
...epitome ; Stiff in opinions — always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long; Who, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,...statesman, and buffoon; Then, all for women, painting, fiddling, drinking; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. DRTDEN. E must now transport the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...toJdUle, and make senate« dance. Pope The iv. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrontj, Was every thin^ by starts, and nothing long, But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was ciijnii8t,^W¿/er, «talesman, and buffoon. i>ryden. Abtaium and AtlulofkrJ. Sometime* your hair you... | |
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