 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
 | 1852 - 454 páginas
...party. Thus DHYDEN : ' Of these the false Acbitopbel 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 nnpleas'd, impatient of disgrace; — ' ' In friendship... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 páginas
...at the doctrine of transubstantiation, which our author afterwards attempted to defend. — SCOTT. For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious,...unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which worketh out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 546 páginas
...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough: — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 550 páginas
...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough: — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 páginas
...close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient...disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, - T \, \y Fretted the pigmy body to decay, ^ ** And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot... | |
 | Celestia Angenette Bloss - 1855 - 522 páginas
...his tragedy of Flaura and Marcus, the first appearance of the regular drama in England. CHAPTER V. For close designs and crooked counsels fit Sagacious,...bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. THOMAS A BECEET had risen rapidly in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 400 páginas
...an end to the dilemma : " Sir J&iue* Tumei muni give bis parol^ cr be liiij ill intita" CHAPTER 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 AchitopkelTHE... | |
 | 1981 - 532 páginas
...ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL Of these the false Achitophel was first A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious,...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. (Extract) If John Dryden had a reader in mind when writing that... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 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,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 1996 - 332 páginas
...immortalized in all his demonic phosphoresecence by John Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel as a man For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit. Using Charles IFs eldest bastard son, the glamorous Duke of Monmouth, as a popular figurehead, Shaftesbury... | |
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