 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 - Page 454edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...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, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...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,... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...(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 - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...his 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...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...indeed, for the hostility of the artist : but he cannot fail to admire the brilliancy of the execution. " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul which, working... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...indeed, for the hostility of the artist: but he cannot fail to admire the brilliancy of the execution. " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul which, working... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...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...fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principle and place ; HUDtBRAS. A fiery soul, which, working out its way, > Fretted the... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - Women in literature - 1819 - 136 pages
...Introduction, 3 vols. 11.4s. A name to all succeeding ages curst. For close designs and crooked councils fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. 4. THE HEROINE ; or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader. By E. Stannard Barrett, Esq. Author of "... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...VII. 6 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...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which,... | |
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