 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 Seiten
...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. Blest madman, who could ev'ry hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy! Railing and praising were his usual themes;... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 568 Seiten
...course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; f Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand...Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes ; So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 558 Seiten
...the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking: Besides ten thousand...hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy!" ADHISON. C. No. 163. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. Si quid ego arffuero, citramve leeasso, Quse nunc le coquit,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 566 Seiten
...the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand...thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ In something new to wish, or to enjoy! In squand'ring wealth was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 Seiten
...the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand...thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ. In something new to wish, or to enjoy ! In sqimnd'ring wcaltn was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 Seiten
...the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand...themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was god or devil. In squandering wealth was his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 Seiten
...the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand...themes; And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was his... | |
 | George deF. Lord - 1963 - 608 Seiten
...the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand...hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy! There is no need to multiply examples from the almost unknown works of minor Augustan satirists. Many... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 Seiten
...Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman,...themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent or over civil 128 That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth was... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 Seiten
...arrangements for lucrative copulation. The allusion to Dryden's couplet from Absalom and Achitophel ("Blest madman, who could every hour employ / With something new to wish or to enjoy") cuts in two ways: Taylor's occupation is foolish, yet he is genuinely "blest" in possessing a benign... | |
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Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But 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. Blest madman, who could... 
