 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...  Literary and Historical Memorials of London - الصفحة 209بواسطة John Heneage Jesse - 1847عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...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,... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...and vigour that belong to health. But, the excitement over, his frame sunk beneath the effort, — " A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body ^o ducay, And o'er-iufonnM the tenement of clay." Hail ! and farewell ! KT D G. STAGE DIRECTIONS. The... | |
 | 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 650
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 1022
...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...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot In extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms;... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 576
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...had made, and valued himself upon effecting them at the properest season, and in the best manner : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : In friendship false, implacable... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...had made, and valued himself upon effecting them at the properest season, and in the best manner : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : In friendship false, implacable... | |
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