| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - Počet stránok 592
...Was every thing by starts and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler,. statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy!" DRYDEN. Absalom... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - Počet stránok 602
...Was ev'ry thing by starts, and nothing long. But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman! who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy, Railing and praising... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - Počet stránok 344
...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,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy !" DRYDEN. Absalom... | |
| NBC University of the Air - 1852 - Počet stránok 456
...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,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy ! Railing and praising... | |
| John Dryden - 1852 - Počet stránok 378
...Was ev'ry thing by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : Then all for women,...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... | |
| Thomas Smibert - 1852 - Počet stránok 126
...kind, and composing the rhyme out of it and the preceding syllable, now the penultimate one. Thus — " Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking." In grave poetry, which uses the double rhyme occasionally, but on the whole sparingly, the last or... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - Počet stránok 588
...nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and bufibon ; 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 !" Dkyden. Absalom... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1853 - Počet stránok 554
...stand : A man so various, that ho scem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ; "Was every thing by starts,...rhyming drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that dy'd in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - Počet stránok 558
...Was every thing by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy!" ADHISON. C. No.... | |
| George deF. Lord - 1963 - Počet stránok 608
...wrong; 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,...Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy! There is no need... | |
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