 | Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - 380 pagini
...Buckingham, old literary enemy, gets anything but subtle treatment in Absalom: "Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; / Was everything by starts, and...Moon, / was Chymist, Fiddler, States-man, and Buffoon ..." (547ff.). Indeed, much of the satiric rhetoric in Absalom draws on the rough matter of personal... | |
 | Niall Rudd - 2005 - 232 pagini
...Zimri: 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...long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon. After complexity, the divided mind. Because of their imperial... | |
 | Joseph Roach - 2007 - 284 pagini
...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...in the course of one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon: Then all for Women, Painting, Rhiming, Drinking; Besides ten thousand... | |
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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 long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then... 
