 Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery...  Littell's Living Age - Էջ 3471847Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1801 - 416 էջ
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achithophel was first, i54 A name to all succeeding agescurs'd; For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unrtx'd in principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 էջ
...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...succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unfixed in principles and place; In... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 էջ
...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 crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 էջ
...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....call the brook the same ; the same we think 3ur life counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Hcsiless, unfix'd in principles and place; In... | |
 | 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 էջ
...(with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitoplicl 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... | |
 | 1809 - 402 էջ
...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 էջ
...throne, Were rais'il in pmrer and public office high; Strong bands, if band^ ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding aces curst: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 էջ
...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... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 էջ
...edition of the Absalom and Acbitofbcl. The memorable verses, which satiri2e him, cannot be forgot. s " For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul. which, working... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 828 էջ
...edition of the Absalom and Acbuofbil. The memorable verses1 Which satirize him, cannot be forgot. " For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working... | |
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