 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 - Página 311editado por - 1832Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John W. Crawford - 1978 - 216 páginas
...first / That practls'd falsehood under saintly show . . . ." (l2l-l22). Oryden says of the plotters, Of these the false Achitophel was first A name to...curst. For close designs and crooked counsels fit . . . (l5O-l52) The words first and false connect the two passages and parallel the false nature of... | |
 | W. Thomas - 1978 - 248 páginas
...balanced one against the other, and by the alliteration. Dryden proceeds: " Quoted in Haley, p. 613. A Name to all succeeding Ages Curst. For close Designs, and crooked Counsell fit; (11. 151-52) The close pattern of k sounds does two things. It suggests that for Dryden... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...interesting and even admirable qualities as men. Consider the famous portrait of Shaftesbury as Achitophel: Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...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 the tenement... | |
 | 1981 - 532 páginas
...have been required to teach to students training to be high-school teachers: ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL Of these the false Achitophel was first A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 páginas
...throne; 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 to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1994 - 514 páginas
...immediately preceding the description of Shaftesbury used as the opening of Haley's biography of Shaftesbury: 'Of these the false Achitophel was first / A name to all succeeding ages curst'; Sprat, True Account, passim. The importance of the concordia secured by exchange of benefits to the... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 1996 - 332 páginas
...immortalized in all his demonic phosphoresecence by John Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel as a man For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit. Using Charles IFs eldest bastard son, the glamorous Duke of Monmouth, as a popular figurehead, Shaftesbury... | |
 | Mary Lou Lustig - 2002 - 356 páginas
...to be well pleased with the services of Edmund Andros. 5 Andros and Imperial Machinations, 1678-1680 Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. — John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"' THE "ACHITOPHEL" DESPISED BY DRYDEN, WAS ANTHONY ASHLEYCooper,... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 páginas
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first: 150 A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'erinformed the tenement... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - 380 páginas
...all revolutions, his fortunes had constantly been rising.' He lives for ever as Dryden's Achitophel : For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious,...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 the tenement... | |
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