 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!  The British Essayists - Strana 141úprava: - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | W. Thomas - 1978 - Počet stránok 248
...revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon: [550] Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. Blest Madman, who coud every hour employ, With something New to wish, or to enjoy! Rayling and praising were his usual... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - Počet stránok 272
...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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - Počet stránok 368
...opinions — -always in the -wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long ; Who, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then, all for nomen, painting, Jiddling, drinking; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. DRYDEN. WE must... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - Počet stránok 220
...by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. (John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel") Satire is one of the most important literary... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - Počet stránok 332
...Achitophei. A man so various, that he seem'd to he Not one, but all Mankinds Epitome. Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon: Then all for Women, Painting,...Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. ;liaes 345ff.) By coincidence, Dryden's lines have here a peculiarly Byronic cadence, and Byron seems... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - Počet stránok 222
...staccato beat of isolated words in combat: ] Zimri ] ... in course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women,...rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman . . . [549-553] The whole structural design of the poem consists in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2001 - Počet stránok 356
...opinions — always in the wrong — Was every thing by starts, but nothing long ; Who, in the course oj one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then, all for women, painting, Jiddling, drinking; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking. DRYDEN. WE must now transport... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - Počet stránok 484
...nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: 550 Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blessed madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy!... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - Počet stránok 1024
...nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: 550 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!... | |
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