 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
 | 1902 - 742 páginas
...of a decided increase in executive independence. AN AMERICAN. ANECDOTES OF A GREAT PARTY LEADER. " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd, Pd /➶հX o'er inform' d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...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, unfiVd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul which, working... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 338 páginas
...wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." " Yet in another place he calls him— " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit j Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | 1829 - 560 páginas
...restlessness of his 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,... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 332 páginas
...his Absalom and Achitophel : " 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 ; liestless, unfixed in principles and place, Jn power unpleased, impatient of disgrace." wit, the... | |
 | John Galt - 1830 - 212 páginas
...written all over with intimations as dismal as the lurid sentence of the Baby onian King. CHAPTER XIX. " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit." DRYDEN. Box whatever was the distressful state of the Queen's mind, it was enviable compared to that... | |
 | 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 - 650 páginas
...predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...people trust, Well may the baser brass contract a rust. [From Absalom and Achitophel.] THE WIT. A FIBBY 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 with the danger, when the... | |
 | 576 páginas
...of ruch times in the well-known character of Shartesbury, the master-intriguer of that age : — " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, lit -tit'", unfixed in principles and place, In pow'r iinpleau'd, impatient of disgrace ; A 6ery soul,... | |
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