 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1880 - 1246 pàgines
...Absalom and AcAitOfhel, it stands for George Saville, marquis of Halifax. Jcrfhatn of piercing vit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move nxwmblies . . . turned the balance too; So much the veiftht of one brave man can do. Drrdin, Abtaiom... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pàgines
...his Countess ("Sacharissa")- — CRAIK, HENRY, 1894, erf., English Prose, vol. HI, p. 207, PERSONAL 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, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - 1926 - 746 pàgines
...first grade, the greatest probably of his period, the " Jotham" of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel — "Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies " — though, according to Bishop Burnet, he " changed sides so often that in the conclusion no side... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 pàgines
...of state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 'H<H() 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, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | William Larkin Webb - 1912 - 280 pàgines
...properly and truly portray John James Ingalls. As Dryden described Halifax so may Ingalls be described: "Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, "Endued by...nature and by learning taught "To move assemblies." Mr. Speaker, Kansas acts wisely in honoring John Jfames Ingalls, for in honoring' him she also honors... | |
 | George Savile Marquis of Halifax - 1912 - 302 pàgines
...Endew'd by nature and by learning taught To move Assemblies, who but onely tri'd The worse a while, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turned the Balance too; So much the weight of one brave man can do. Indeed, for all that he is called the Trimmer, Halifax... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 pàgines
...pregnant Thought : Endew'd by Nature, and by Learning taught To move Assemblies, who but onely tri'd The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turn'd the Balance too ; So much the weight of one brave man can do. See also Dryden's dedication to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 pàgines
...Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 ^^ — That from his disobedient son were torn. Jothani of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1923 - 352 pàgines
...Endew'd by nature and by learning taught To move Assemblies, who but onely tri'd The worse a while, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the Balance too ; So much the weight of one brave man can do. Indeed, for all that he is called the Trimmer, Halifax... | |
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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... 
