| W. Thomas - 1978 - 248 pągines
...balanced one against the other, and by the alliteration. Dryden proceeds: " Quoted in Haley, p. 613. A Name to all succeeding Ages Curst. For close Designs, and crooked Counsell fit; (11. 151-52) The close pattern of k sounds does two things. It suggests that for Dryden... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pągines
...interesting and even admirable qualities as men. Consider the famous portrait of Shaftesbury as Achitophel: 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... | |
| 1981 - 532 pągines
...have been required to teach to students training to be high-school teachers: ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL Of these the false Achitophel was first A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless,... | |
| Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 pągines
...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 cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless,... | |
| John Marshall - 1994 - 514 pągines
...immediately preceding the description of Shaftesbury used as the opening of Haley's biography of Shaftesbury: 'Of these the false Achitophel was first / A name to all succeeding ages curst'; Sprat, True Account, passim. The importance of the concordia secured by exchange of benefits to the... | |
| Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - 380 pągines
...constantly been rising.' He lives for ever as Dryden's Achitophel : For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit; Restless,...power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.... | |
| Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pągines
...Achitophel was first: 150 A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless,...power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'erinformed the tenement of clay.... | |
| Mary Lou Lustig - 2002 - 356 pągines
...to be well pleased with the services of Edmund Andros. 5 Andros and Imperial Machinations, 1678-1680 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. — John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"' THE... | |
| John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pągines
...Achitophel was first,0 150 A name to all succeeding ages cursed: For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless,...power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.... | |
| John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pągines
...dismissals of Shaftesbury. And identifying him with Achitophel of course 'places' him neatly as a villain: 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... | |
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