 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...  History of England - Página 655por Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - 1908Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfiVd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; [high, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | 1902 - 742 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul, which, working...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay." IT is to the first Earl of Shaftesbury, Dryden's Achitophel, and one of Macaulay's Iwtes no-ires, "... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd, Pd /➶հX o'er inform' d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 338 páginas
...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...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." (Alsalom and Achitopkel.) " The discrepancy in the two characters... | |
 | 1826 - 344 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 560 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 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 - 650 páginas
...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 But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts... | |
 | 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 - 654 páginas
...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 But praise deserved no enemy can grudge ; The Statesman we abhor, but not the Judge. In Israel's courts... | |
 | 576 páginas
...wit, lit -tit'", unfixed in principles and place, In pow'r iinpleau'd, impatient of disgrace ; A 6ery 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; Pleas'd with the danger when the wave... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 páginas
...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, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high Pleas* cl with the danger,... | |
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