| 1821 - 800 Seiten
...of Lord Shaftesbury. " A name to all succeeding ages cursed ; For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should... | |
| 1821 - 778 Seiten
...close designs and crooked councils tit, JSagacions, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix V in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sore to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should... | |
| 1822 - 314 Seiten
...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,...out, its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 Seiten
...character in his Poem of Absolom and Achitophel, with great strength and force of colouring : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to all...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... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1822 - 496 Seiten
...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... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...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... | |
| Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 338 Seiten
...calls him— " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit j Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power...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 Seiten
...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 - 650 Seiten
...we are content to say, (with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name to...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy... | |
| 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 Seiten
...we are content to say, (with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name to...fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy... | |
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