 | 1852 - 454 pàgines
...him the seditious mover and soul of the rebel party. Thus DHYDEN : ' Of these the false Acbitopbel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix 'd in principles and place ;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 pàgines
...throne, Were rais'd in pow'r and public office high; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curs'd: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 pàgines
...throne, Were raised in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel, was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst : * A sneer at the doctrine of transubstantiation, which our author afterwards attempted to defend.... | |
 | 1855 - 834 pàgines
...DM,1700.] CHARACTER OF SHAITESBÜRY. FROM " ABSALOM AND ACUITOPHEL." OF these the false Achitophcl was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd, in principles and place ;... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 pàgines
...which he can receive Shall cost a limb of his prerogative." Or, in his character of Shaftesbury, — " Of these the false Achitophel was first : A name to...succeeding ages curst ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ;... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pàgines
...circumstances that occasioned Dryden's poem 'Absalom and Achitophel.' To whom are the lines commencing, ' Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst,' meant to apply ? Sketch his character. 7. ' Jeffreys made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pàgines
...will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. DRYDEN. 37. CHARACTER OP SHAFTESBURY. OF these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...succeeding ages curst, For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In... | |
 | War office - 1858 - 578 pàgines
...be altered or retained at the option of the Candidate :— For close designs and crooked counsels^, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A daring pilot in extremity; . Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high, He sought the storm ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pàgines
...throne, Were rais'd in power, and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, — A name...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unhx'd in principles and place, In power unp/eas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery toui, that working... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pàgines
...throne, Were rais'd in power and puhlic offiee high ( Strong hands, if hands ungrateful men could lie. he false Achitophel was first ;* A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and erooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and... | |
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Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery... 
