 | 1849 - 468 pages
...imprisoned for life or lengthened periods, and the baseminded government had the meanness to dis* " Of these, the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst." " The Colonel's spirits," says Mrs. Hurchinson, " were provoked with the sight of tbeir judges, among... | |
 | 1839 - 466 pages
...hot bed nursed in England, I subjoin the character of Shaftesbury from Dryden's great hand : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to...succeeding ages curst. For close designs, and crooked counsels {'it ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'd in principles and place ;... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pages
...Shaftesburr, the victim of too keen and fervent intellect, who is drawn under the name of Achitophel : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd in principles and place. In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - 494 pages
...Medal," severely satirizes Shaftesbury : in the former of these poems he is thus characterized — " For close designs and crooked councils fit ; " Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; " Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; " In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : " A fiery soul, which... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, 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.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...JOHN DRYDEN. [Born. 1631. Died, 1700.] CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." OP strong Will pierce more near his heart. SONG ON HAY...MORNING. Now the bright morning Star, day's harbinger counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd, in principles and place ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...his verse it would be vain to eulogise. [Character of Shaftcsbury.] [From ' Absalom and Achitophel.'] same writer has pointed out the entircness of Browne...every subject before him. He never wanders from it, counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ;... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 pages
...madhouse, or, at best, succeed to the delusions, without the cheerful intervals, of Cowper. CHAPTER XV. " Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless — unfixed in principles and place." — DRYDEN. " Whoever acquires a very great number of ideas interesting to the society in which he... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...his metre." i CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY UNDER THE NAME OF ACHITOPHEL." OF these3 the false Achitophel4 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 ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 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...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,'lhat working... | |
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Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery... 
