 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 páginas
...epitome: s 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 ; * * » » » Bless'd madman, who could every hour employ, 10 With something new to wish, or to enjoy!... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 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, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | Boys - 1880 - 362 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 : Then all for woman, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 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, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | Horace - 1881 - 420 páginas
...and Achitophel,' concluding with the lines : — " Was everything by starts, and nothing long, But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon." t Cowper's lines in "The Task" (Sofa) present us with a kindred picture : — And this old sinner,... | |
 | Owen John Dullea - 1882 - 106 páginas
...interest connected with the former associations of the spot. Beginning with the Duke of Buckingham, who " In the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon," it has numbered amongst its owners Lord Orkney, one of IVIarlborough's lieutenants in Flanders ; Frederick,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 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, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | 1882 - 722 páginas
...Lear. E. HL.—" Stiff in opinions, alway in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long, But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon." - Drvdtn ML BE. — " Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 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 bnffoon. 1. DBYDEN— Absalom and Achitophel. Pt I. Line 545. He cast off his friends, as a huntsman... | |
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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... 
