A man so various that he seemed to be

DMI number:

36900

First Line:

A man so various that he seemed to be

Last Line:

That every man with him was God or devil

Poem Genre / Form:

Character, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Quatrain aabb

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Author:

John Dryden

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

See linked poems, beginning 'A man so various'; Calif. II (1969): 21-2.

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Content/Publication

Title:

The beauties of poetry: or, a portable repository of English verse, on an entire new plan. [T85619] [ECCO]

Page No(s):

p.232

Poem Title:

Whimsy A-La-Mode.

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