 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...ear, As Cato's self had not disdained to hear. POPE. 36.— CHARACTEK OF VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. SOME of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...believing right. Such were the tools ; but a whole hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land. In...; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. Was everything by starts, and nothing... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...helieving right. Such were the tools : hut a whole Hydra more Remains of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In...did Zimri stand A man so various, that he seem'd to he Not one, hut all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; Was every thing hy... | |
 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...But why Hussein ? Z'miri should be your name. You are the very Zimri of Dryden's glorious satire." In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so virtuous ¡i> he scorned to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Thus musing and quoting I rejoined... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...wished ; the jest went round, and he was laughed at in his turn who began the frolic : — VOL. L 19 " Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man 80 various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 414 pages
...elevated), " it is an impudent satire on glorious John ; but he tickled Buckingham off for it — ' In the first rank of these did Zimri stand A man so various ' " " Hold your peace ! " said Bunce, drowning the voice of the admirer of Dryden in louder and more... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...made for empire, whispers me within, Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.' CHARACTER OF BUCKINGHAM. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land ; In...; 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 everything by starts, and... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...The following sketch of the Duke of Buckingham may be compared with that by Pope (see p. 301) : — " Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In...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 everything... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing— a son. CHARACTER OF BUCKINGHAM. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In...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 ev'rything... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing— a son. CHARACTER OF BUCKINOiHAM. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In...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 ev'rything... | |
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