 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
 | Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 371 páginas
...ill-health were upon him; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely — The fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay ; And o'er informed the tenement of clay. I longed to open my heart to him. Instinctively I felt that he... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A 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 ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851
...CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. 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 uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which,... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 334 páginas
...language is spoken : " 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, unfixt in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working... | |
 | JOHN LORD CAMPBELL, LL.D. F.R.S.E. - 1851
...talents, and who, as a statesman, is one of the most extraordinary characters in English history : u For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleaVd impatient of disgrace : A daring pilot in extremity,... | |
 | 1851
...be said to travel on the broad gauge. They are usually thin and ^lively, and not a few have that " Fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'erinforms the tenement of clay." We do not object, however, to a moderate and graceful rotundity.... | |
 | Daniel Owen Madden - 1852
...will. In short, I thought, on looking at the young nobleman, of Dryden's lines on Shaftesbury : — " A fiery soul which working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay." Lord John Rowland seemed then in very poor health, his cheeks... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 350 páginas
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curs'd: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which working... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1852
...illhealth were upon him ; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely — The fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay ; And o'er informed the tenement of clay. I longed to open my heart to him. Instinctively I felt that he... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1852
...delicate stomach, than those of Ritt-master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. CHAPTEK XII. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.... | |
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