 | 1835 - 740 pàgines
...period pursued him with perhaps too just a retribution during the remainder of his life. James * " Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thought, Endued...side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too." — Absolom and Achitophel. See character of Halifax by the continuator of Mackintosh, p. 513. •(•... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 pàgines
...going or endeavouring to set up mass, which put the common people into a tumult." Jenny Geddes her • Jotham, of piercing wit, and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move aesembliee, but who only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side : Nor chose aloue, but... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pàgines
...slave of state : "Whom David's love with honours did adorn, That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit,§ and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature, and by learning taught, parliamentary deprivation was never to be allowed, and therefore they looked on Sancroft as the archliishop... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 pàgines
...his'voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryr den he is described as 'of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pàgines
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 pàgines
...honours did adorn, True to his prince, but not a slave of state; That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham", of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature, and by learning taught The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; To move assemblies ; who but only tried Nor chose alone,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 pàgines
...Dedication to King Arthur, t. Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and bv learning taught To move assemblies; who but only tried...worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alono, but turned the balance loo. Abtalom and Achitaphel. Lord Halifax says, " Mr. Dryden told me... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - 630 pàgines
...Dedication to King Arthur. Î Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and bv learning taught To move assemblies; who but only tried...chose alone, but turned the balance too. Absalom and Achilophd. Lord Hnufax soys, " Mr. Dryden told me that be was offered money to write against me." —... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pàgines
...Derivation to King Arthur. J Jotham. of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and hv learning taught To move assemblies ; who but only...chose alone, but turned the balance too. Absalom and Achitophel. Lord Halifax says, " Mr. Dryden told*me that he was offered money to write against me."... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 pàgines
...seem•to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as 15* " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
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Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought,* Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too— So much the weight of one brave... 
