 Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery...  The English Poets - Pàgina 450editat per - 1880Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 496 pàgines
...Pryden_dww«-4us-cha-'i racter in his Poem of Absolom and Achilophel, with great strength : " and force^>FcoTourmg">^ false Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unlix'd in principle and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pàgines
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-iriform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pàgines
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfiVd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; [high, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | 1902 - 742 pàgines
...of a decided increase in executive independence. AN AMERICAN. ANECDOTES OF A GREAT PARTY LEADER. " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high : Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. still are pleas'd too little or too much. At tit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd,... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 338 pàgines
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit j Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." (Alsalom and Achitopkel.) " The discrepancy in the two characters... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 332 pàgines
...Drydcn has described this statesmen in a strain of exquisite satire in his Absalom and Achitophel : " The false Achitophel was first A name to all succeeding...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; liestless, unfixed in principles and place, Jn power unpleased, impatient of disgrace." wit, the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 654 pàgines
...him we are content to say, (with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name...and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 pàgines
...him we are content to say, (with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name...and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pàgines
...throne, Were rais'd in power and puhlic oflice high 4 Strong hands, if hands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first ;* A name...close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unftYd in principles and place ; ID power unpleas'd, impatient... | |
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