 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...more Remains, of sprouting heads too long to score. Some of their chiefs were princes of the land : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be 445 Not one, hut all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; But, in the course... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...Noctes vigilabat ad ipsvm Mane: diem totum stertebat. Nil fuit unquam Sic ' impaij sibi HOR. 1 Sat. tii. Instead of translating this passage in Horace, I '...character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, aiid raised upon the same inundation : In the first rank of these did Zimri stand : A man so various,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...vigitaltat ad ipsrnn Mane: diemtotmnstertelat. f\ii j'uit unuuam Kc ' impar' sibi HOR. 1 Sat. iii. Instead of translating this passage in Horace, I shall...entertain my English reader with the description of a pa:iillcl character, that is wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden, and raised upon the same foundation... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...plots wi^h plots so c«ost, That the true plut amongst Uie Uilse was lost. Absalam Senior. Note XVIII. 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. — P. 233. This inimitable description refers, as... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 324 pages
...ad ipsttm JMane~ : diem totum stertebat. JVilfuit unquam Sic ' impar1 sil/i — — HOR. 1 Sat. iil. Instead of translating this passage in Horace, I •shall...the same foundation : In the first rank of these did Zirari stand : A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...vigilabat ad ipium Mane : Diem totam itertebat. Nilfuit unquam Sic impar ribi——— HoR. Sat. 3. lib. 1. Instead of translating this passage in Horace, I shall...raised upon the same foundation. In the first rank of theie did Zimri stand : A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...vigilibat ad ipvtm Afane : diem totum tíertebat. Niífutí unquam Sic ' impar' ubi ' HÖR. l Sat. iii. Instead of translating this passage in Horace, I shall...with the description of a parallel character, that ¡я wonderfully well finished by Mr. Dryden *, and raised upon the same foundation : ' In the first... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...Noctes mgilaltat ad ipsum Muni; : diem Mum stertebat. Nilfuit unquam Sic ' impar1 sibi HoR. 1 Sat. iii. Instead of translating this passage in Horace, I shall...the same foundation : In the first rank of these did Zinari stand: A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...vtgiubat ad ifiium Mane : diem utum lUrtdnt. Nil fail imquam Sic • impar' til/i—' HOR.lStt.Ui. ties in matter, an lini rank or these did Zimrit itand : A nan so various that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind**... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...appellations, he thus paints our singularly accomplished, and, I am afraid, somewhat dangerous neighbour. 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 every... | |
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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 by starts and nothing... 
