 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 páginas
...ACHITOPHEL." THE CHARACTER OF THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY DELINEATED AS ACHITOPHEL. Of these the false Achitophel1 was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst :...Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleascd, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 652 páginas
...Shaftesbury is thus described by Dryden as the worst of the ungrateful opponents of Charles : " Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; 1 Spence's Anecdotes,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 páginas
...close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit — Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-infonned the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 páginas
...close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit — Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 páginas
...high; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, 150 A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs...fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; 155 A fiery soul, which... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 páginas
...high; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, 150 A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs...fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; 155 A fiery soul, which... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 páginas
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger when the waves... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - 194 páginas
...course, remember the Achitopkel of Dryden's immortal satire : — " A name to all succeeding ages cnrst ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious,...Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 páginas
...spot of ground. The Flower and the Leaf. STATESMEN OF THE XVII. CENTURY. (Earl of Shaftesbury.) OF these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all...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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 páginas
...drawing, from the historical importance of the persons represented. Shaftesbury is thus described : — Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Here follow the lines given above at page 253 ; after which the poet proceeds : — A daring pilot... | |
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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, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery... 
