 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
 | Henry Roscoe - Law - 1825 - 338 pages
...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,... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | Periodicals - 1829 - 560 pages
...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 - Conspiracies - 1829 - 332 pages
...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 - Fiction - 1830 - 212 pages
...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 - English literature - 1832 - 650 pages
...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... | |
 | 576 pages
...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 - 418 pages
...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 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 660 pages
...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... | |
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