 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...  An Introduction to English Literature - 195. lappuseautors: Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1899 - 556 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1801 - 416 lapas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unrtx'd in principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And oVi'-iiiform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; r& Pleas'd... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 lapas
...extraordinary personage. Anecd. vol.vp 54. J . 3 [Dryden characterizes him in his well-known satire; " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixt in principles and place ; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace. in him to brag that Cromwell... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 lapas
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bunds ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imfiv'd hi principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 468 lapas
...of Shaftesbury in Hudibras, Part iii. Canto 2. Dryden characterizes him in his well-known satire: " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; AN T OXY AN n L. K v C oor B n. , erf' in him to brag that Cromwell would have made him king: the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 lapas
...high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; "K A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs,...fiery soul, which, working out its way, "^ Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, > And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; } A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 lapas
...VII. 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...counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 lapas
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In pow'r uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery sonl, which, working... | |
 | 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 - 644 lapas
...(with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitoplicl was first — A name to all succeeding ages curst;...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 lapas
...throne, Were rais'd in |>ow'r and jniUic orlicc high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could lie. d him twice: To the same life none ever twice awoke....though still more rapid in its flow ; Nor mark the ; Hcsiless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r ilnpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery attul,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 lapas
...pnhlic oflice kigni Strong bands, 'it bands ongrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitnphel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked couusclt fit; Sagacious, hold, and turbulent of nit ; Restless, unfix' d in principles and place; In... | |
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