| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pages
...indeed, for the hostility of the artist : but he cannot fail to admire the brilliancy of the execution. " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ;... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...indeed, for the hostility of the artist: but he cannot fail to admire the brilliancy of the execution. " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In... | |
| Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1819 - 136 pages
...Lit. Reg. 3. GLENARVON ! ! ! The 4th Edition, with a Preface and a new Introduction, 3 vols. 11.4s. A name to all succeeding ages curst. For close designs...place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. 4. THE HEROINE ; or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader. By E. Stannard Barrett, Esq. Author of "... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 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 to all succeeding ages curs'd ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...VII. 6 Were raised 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 counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ;... | |
| 1821 - 800 pages
...Achitophel ? Take, for example, the character of Lord Shaftesbury. " A name to all succeeding ages cursed ; For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which,... | |
| 1821 - 778 pages
...close designs and crooked councils tit, JSagacions, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix V in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sore to madness near allied,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1822 - 496 pages
...Pryden_dww«-4us-cha-'i racter in his Poem of Absolom and Achilophel, with great strength : " and force^>FcoTourmg">^ 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, unlix'd in principle and place ; In... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...throne, Were raised in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. 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,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high : Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. still are pleas'd too little or too much. At counsels tit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In... | |
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