 | John Dryden - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...epitome : [Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, [Waa^^erything by sta.rts and nothing long ; But ^the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; 550 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...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." —Absalom and Achilophel. " Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 688
...mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was every thing 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.... | |
 | 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...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. An example of his gentler manner may be found in his picture of the swallow taken from " The Hind and... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - عدد الصفحات: 252
...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, Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...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; . . . The description of Monmouth (as Absalom) courting the people is done with a characteristic mixture of admiration... | |
 | Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...Absalom: "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, States-man, and Buffoon ..." (547ff.). Indeed, much of the satiric rhetoric in Absalom draws on the rough matter of personal... | |
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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... 
