 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 Quarterly Review - Side 311redigeret af - 1832Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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,...and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, "^ Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, > And o'er-informed... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 sider
...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 :...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sider
...jniUic orlicc high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could lie. Of these the false Achitophel none ever twice awoke. We call the brook the same...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 sider
...band^ ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding aces [ Ӏ 0 "I 1810 Printed for J. Johnson") Chalmers Alexander" Alexander Chalmers 5 T' unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd, impotent of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 sider
...Absolom and Achitophel with great strength and force of colouring : " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst, For close designs, and crooked cotmseli fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principle and place; In power... | |
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