| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the crowd hie arm to shake the tree. [Character of YiUicrs, DuJet of liut-kingham.] [From the same.] song, resound His praise, who out of darkness cull'd...Air, and ye elements ! the eldest birth Of nature's w secm'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was ev'rything... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...the crowd his arm to shake the tree. [Ctiaracter of Viliicra, Dult of BucLinyhan.] [From the same.] ed by a friend why he removed so often from one house to another, replied, " I Ziinri stand ; A man so various that he sccrn'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...the вате.] Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did /imri 0 3 ʁ ԁ ƀ but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was ev'rything by starts, and nothing... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...golden fruit to gather free, And lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. 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 ev'ry thing by starts, and... | |
| American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...characters will be as good as manuscript. I will at all events try the experiment. Here they be : " In the first rank 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 everything... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...the ground; The prostrate vulgar passes o'er and spares, But with a lordly rage his hunters tears. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In...stand; 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 ev'ry thing by starts, and... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...characters will be as good as manuscript. I will at all events try the experiments. Here they be : " In the first rank 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 everything... | |
| Walter Scott - 1852 - 574 pages
...elevated,) " it is an impudent satire ou 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... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...arm to shake the tree. CUARACTER OF GEORGE VILLIERS, THE SECOND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. FROM THE SAME. 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 every thing by starts, and... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...lent the crowd his arm to shake the tree. [Character of VilUcrs, Dulx of Buckingham.] [From the same.] 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 ev'rything by starts, and nothing... | |
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