 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: Selections - Página 450editado por - 1880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1839 - 466 páginas
...hot bed nursed in England, I subjoin the character of Shaftesbury from Dryden's great hand : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to...ages curst. For close designs, and crooked counsels {'it ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'd in principles and place ; In power... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 páginas
...close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd 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 ; Pleased with the danger when the... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd 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 ; Pleased with the danger when the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...JOHN DRYDEN. [Born. 1631. Died, 1700.] CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." OP these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd, in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...his verse it would be vain to eulogise. [Character of Shaftcsbury.] [From ' Absalom and Achitophel.'] same writer has pointed out the entircness of Browne...occasion to wander ; for whatever happens to be his unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which,... | |
 | 1847 - 640 páginas
...Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curs>t ; For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, that working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-infirmed the tenement of clay."... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...his metre." i CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY UNDER THE NAME OF ACHITOPHEL." OF these3 the false Achitophel4 was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed5 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremety ; Pleased with the danger when the... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 páginas
...famous Cabal in the reign of Charles the Second, and the " Achitophel " of Dryden's immortal poem. For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious,...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay, &c. Arlington House was pulled down by the no less celebrated John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, who... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...eulogise. [Character of Shnftafou.ry.'] [From ' Absalom and Achitophel.'] Of these the false Achitophel wan @ unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which,... | |
 | 1847 - 610 páginas
...Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For close designs and crooked councils fit. Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless,...power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, that working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.''... | |
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