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
| W. Thomas - 1978 - 248 páginas
...While glancing at the ill health of his body, Dryden elaborates on the wit and ambition of his mind: A fiery Soul, which working out its way, Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay. A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleas 'd with the Danger, when the... | |
| 1981 - 532 páginas
...succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power...to decay; And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. (Extract) If John Dryden had a reader in mind when writing that poem, it was most certainly not the... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity. Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
| Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - 950 páginas
...Atlantic by air— Manchester Guardian) Daring heightens the implication of fearlessness <a during pilot in extremity, pleased with the danger, when the waves went high — Dryden) Daredevil implies ostentation in daring and is often specifically applied to adversary... | |
| Walter Scott - 1902 - 394 páginas
...again,' said the Factor. ' Why, to be sure,' replied the minstrel, ' I am, as glorious John says, — " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves go high, I seek the storm — but, for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit."... | |
| Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 páginas
...succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay: And o'er informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
| William L. Fox - 1997 - 606 páginas
...Went High 1969-1985 Henry C. Clausen A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay....danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms . . . John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel" A little past five in the morning on April 18, 1906, an... | |
| Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 páginas
...chaotic energy,"turbulent of wit ... Restless, unfixed in principles and place," "for calm unfit," A fiery soul, which, working out its way Fretted the...body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. [156-158]6" As order begets order, so also Achitophel, the center of chaos, can produce only chaos,... | |
| Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - 380 páginas
...Dryden's Achitophel : For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power...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 with... | |
| Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 páginas
...succeeding ages cursed. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power...disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity:... | |
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