 | Spectator The - 1853 - 558 pages
...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 every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy!"... | |
 | George deF. Lord - Poetry - 1963 - 608 pages
...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 every hour employ With something new to wish, or to enjoy!... | |
 | Denys Thompson - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 252 pages
...and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Beside 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 were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; So over violent... | |
 | W. Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 248 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 272 pages
...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... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - Language Arts & Disciplines - 220 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...that he seem'd to he Not one, but all Mankinds Epitome. Was Chymist, Fidler, States-Man, and Buffoon: Then all for Women, Painting, Rhyming, Drinking; 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... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - Authors and readers - 1998 - 528 pages
...and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Beside ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ...Railing and praising were his usual themes, And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : So over violent or over civil That every man with him was God or Devil.... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - History - 1998 - 222 pages
...combat: ] Zimri ] ... in course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking. Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman . . . [549-553] The whole structural design of the poem consists in... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...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!... | |
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Stiff in opinions, always in the 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, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that... 
