 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, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A...  History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun - Página 33de Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809
...ungrateful men could lie. Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst: ; the same we think 3ur life, 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 Johnson - 1810
...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, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd, impotent of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812
...and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working 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... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812
...and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul. which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er-intbrm'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix' d in principles and place, In pnw'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, ЛяЛ o'er- in Гиг m'dt lie lestement of clay. variety of opinions concerning treason, and there... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816
...of the execution. " 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, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul which, working... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816
...brilliancy of the execution. " 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, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul which, working... | |
 | Lewis Innes, Thomas Innes, James Stanier Clarke, James II (King of England) - 1816
...to the Character of Lord Shqftsbury, the leading Enemy of CHARLES THE SECOND. (Vol. ix. p. 222.) " For close designs, and crooked Counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. In Friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the State." " The Earl of Shaftesbury,"... | |
 | 1831
...his (Vitalis) temper, the constant struggle of a gigantic mind with a weak and feeble frame — • A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay'— his eager longing for the liberation of the spirit from the trammels of earthly cares and sufferings,... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1819 - 121 páginas
...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 "... | |
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