 | Celestia Angenette Bloss - Crusades - 1855 - 522 pages
...his tragedy of Flaura and Marcus, the first appearance of the regular drama in England. CHAPTER V. For close designs and crooked counsels fit Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. THOMAS A BECEET had risen... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...which he can receive Shall cost a limb of his prerogative." Or, in his character of Shaftesbury, — " Of these the false Achitophel was first : A name to...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... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...which he can receive Shall cost a limb of his prerogative." Or, in his character of Shaftesbury, — " Of these the false Achitophel was first : A name to...counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Bestless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...circumstances that occasioned Dryden's poem 'Absalom and Achitophel.' To whom are the lines commencing, ' Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst,' meant to apply ? Sketch his character. 7. ' Jeffreys made all the charters, like the walls of Jericho,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - History - 1856 - 432 pages
...Morton felt itself buoyed up for a space above the tumult of passionate and bitter thought. CHAPTER LVI. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. — Drydcn. ON the next morning he was walking near the Court House, when a man accosted him, touching... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. DRYDEN. 37. CHARACTER OP SHAFTESBURY. OF these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul which working... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...divide the crown: He rais'da mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. i Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unflx'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power, and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, — A name...succeeding ages curst ; For close designs and crooked councils fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unhx'd in principles and place, In... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and puhlic offiee high ( Strong hands, if hands ungrateful men could lie. he false Achitophel was first ;* A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and erooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 398 pages
...delicate stomach, than those of Ritt-master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. CHAPTER THE TWELFTH. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. AnSALOM AND AcHlTOPHEL.... | |
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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... 
