 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 - Page 33by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; "K A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious,...fiery soul, which, working out its way, "^ Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, > And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; } A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, George Carleton - Europe - 1808 - 516 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In pow'r uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery sonl, which, working... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...ungrateful men could tie. 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 ; Kestless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 560 pages
...The famous lines ot" Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough : " ' A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, * And o'er inform'd the tensmenl of clay.' " His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitoplicl 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...ungrateful men could lie. Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst: ; the same we think 3ur life, 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,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...Sagacious, hold, and turbulent of nit ; Restless, unfix' d in principles and place; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, ) Fretted (he pigmy body to-decay, I And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. \ A daring pilot in extremity ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...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; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd, impotent of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul. which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er-intbrm'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
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