 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, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery...  Manual of English Literature - Page 74by Albert Hamann - 1911 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1849 - 468 pages
...for life or lengthened periods, and the baseminded government had the meanness to dis* " Of these, the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst." " The Colonel's spirits," says Mrs. Hurchinson, " were provoked with the sight of tbeir judges, among... | |
 | 1839 - 466 pages
...nursed in England, I subjoin the character of Shaftesbury from Dryden's great hand : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding...ages curst. For close designs, and crooked counsels {'it ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'd in principles and place ; In power... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...working 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... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pages
...victim of too keen and fervent intellect, who is drawn under the name of Achitophel : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst; For close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd in principles and place.... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 452 pages
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 734 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1024 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 448 pages
...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the earl of Peterborough : A Aery 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...DRYDEN. [Born. 1631. Died, 1700.] CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." OP these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd, in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which... | |
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