 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, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery...  Specimens of the British Poets - Σελίδα 306των Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 716 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 σελίδες
...VII. Were raised in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; A name...counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 σελίδες
...high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; "K A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs,...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 σελίδες
...throne, Were rais'd in |>ow'r and jniUic orlicc high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could lie. d him twice: To the same life none ever twice awoke....though still more rapid in its flow ; Nor mark the ; Hcsiless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r ilnpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery attul,... | |
 | 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 - 644 σελίδες
...(with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitoplicl was first — A name to all succeeding ages curst;...fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 σελίδες
...band^ ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding aces curst: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit;...Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd, impotent of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, - Fretted the pigmy-body... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 σελίδες
...indeed, for the hostility of the artist: but he cannot fail to admire the brilliancy of the execution. " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul which, working out it's way, Fretted flie pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of day. A daring pilot in... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 σελίδες
...indeed, for the hostility of the artist : but he cannot fail to admire the brilliancy of the execution. " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul which, working out it's way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 584 σελίδες
...character in his Poem of Absolom and Achitophel, with great strength and force of colouring: — " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principle and place ; HUDtBRAS. A fiery soul, which, working out its way, > Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 σελίδες
...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,...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 σελίδες
...VII. 6 Were raised in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel* was first ; A name...working out its way, ") Fretted the pigmy body to decay, VAnd o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
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