 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 642 pàgines
...of Dryden in "Absalom and Achitophel." which was published in the end of the following year : — " Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learn1ng taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pàgines
...is the subject of a few laudatory lines : — Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endowed by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies,...side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight of one brave man can do. The following sketch of the Duke of Buckingham may be compared... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 pàgines
...piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endowed by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who bnt 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 man can do. The following sketch of the Duke of Buckingham may be compared... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 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 Bolirigbroke, of Charles... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pàgines
...slave of state : Whom David's love with honours did adorn, 8SO That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham, of piercing wit, and pregnant thought. ; Endued...then chose the better side : Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance too, — • So much the weight of one brave man can do. Bushai, the friend of David... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pàgines
...slave of state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn SSo That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pàgines
...of state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn £80 That from his disobedient son were torn. I Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 pàgines
...circles, and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 456 pàgines
...and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Drycleu paints Halifax — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | 1876 - 556 pàgines
...son ; Swift was the race but short the time to run." The Marquis of Halifax is represented as — " Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued...learning taught To move assemblies ; who but only try'd The worse awhile, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So... | |
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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... 
