 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
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...delicate stomach, than those of Ritt- master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. CHAPTER XII. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In pow'r unpleased, impatient in disgrace. Absalom and AcMtophd THE... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...from thence, blow, Of these the false Achitophel was first ;* A name to all succeeding agea 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, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unftYd in principles and place ; ID power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy hody to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high Pleas'd... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of 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 ; Pleas'd with the danger when the... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd in principles and place. In power unpleased, impatient...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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...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... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; " Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; " In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : " A fiery soul, which working out its way, " Fretted the pigmy body to decay." It is however universally admitted, that this nobleman executed the important duties of lord chancellor... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 1024
...restless 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 tof clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr Birch's 'Lives,' was thin... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...restless 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... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 734
...the common standard of humanity to look at him, or differ in opinion in the slightest degree. His was A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. He excelled (in his own estimation) in long stories, which he told with an extraordinary minuteness... | |
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