 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...  The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages - Page 330by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland - 1889Full view - About this book
 | George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 552 pages
...facile execution. Dryden, it will 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... | |
 | Francis Redfern - 1875 - 80 pages
...mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by turns and nothing long. But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; ******* Beggared by fools. whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate."... | |
 | Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 pages
...child."—Mark ix, 21. " Heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe."—Ibid. " But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." Dryden. "Ne of liia speech dangerous ne digne."—Chaucer. " But bold of BOM! when headlong fury fired."—Pope.... | |
 | Donald Nicoll - 1878 - 432 pages
..." 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,...statesman, and buffoon ; Then, all for women, painting, fiddling, drinking ; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking." Titus Gates, and others of the... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...MACAULAY. " 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. Railing and praising were his usual themes ; And, both to show his judgment in extremes, So over-violent... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 528 pages
...arrested and sent to the Tower, where he remained till the Protector's death. It was this Duke — "Who, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and bufl'uon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in... | |
 | Horace - 1878 - 252 pages
...Vixit iiuequalis. So Dryden says that Buckingham " Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." — cluvum mutaret. He sometimes wore the senatorial tunica laticlavia, and sometimes, for mere whim... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1879 - 504 pages
...mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions; always in the wrong; Everything by starts, but nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler,...; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Beggared by fools, whom such he found, too late,—... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1879 - 534 pages
...epitome ; Stiff in opinions — always in the wrong — Was everything by starts, but nothing long j 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. DBYDEN. WE must now transport... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...epitome : Stiff iu opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist,...; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, „„_ ... „ f „ , -. talent* is here ciiielly to be understood, manifests itself in the admirable... | |
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