Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy... Poetical Works - עמוד 27מאת John Dryden - 1808תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| 1860 - 436 דפים
...which may have occurred to him in his rending, he reminds us of the lines : " Praising and blaming were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes, So over-violent, or over-civil, That every man with him was God or devil I" But when he addresses himself... | |
| John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 דפים
...poet, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon : Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman...wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his usual thcmct, And both, to show his jndgment in extremes. So over violent, so over civil, That every man,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 דפים
...freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman ! who could ev'ry hour employ With something new to winh, ed men in their days), will so Latin their tongues,...that the simple cannot but wonder at their talk, and over-violent, or over-civil, That ev'ry man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 דפים
...moon, Was ehemist, fiddler, statesman, and bnffoon. • • • * Blest madman, who eonld every honr employ With something new to wish or to enjoy. Railing and praising were his nsnal themes, And both, to show his jndgment, in extremes. So over-violent or over-eivil, That every... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 דפים
...: Who, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Dryden might have mentioned, among the number, his passion for building, which the Duke called his... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1850 - 996 דפים
...long; But in the course of one revolving moon Wss chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. • * * In squandering wealth woe his peculiar art : Nothing went unrewarded, hut desert ; Bcggar'd... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 דפים
...long, But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten...themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes ; So over-violent, so over-civil, That every man with him was God or devil. In squandering wealth was his... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 דפים
...long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,. statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten...hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy!" DRYDEN. Absalom and AchitojAel. » Now for the little hunchback of Twickenham— In the worst Inn's... | |
| 1851 - 604 דפים
...long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten...hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy !" DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel. Now for the little hunchback of Twickenham : " In the worst inn's... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 דפים
...; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten...hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy !" DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel. Now for the little hunchback of Twickenham — " In the worst inn's... | |
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