 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 pages
...ease, than I can gently. 2. Charles 1". — 3. Le duc de Monmouth. 4. Le comte de Shaftesbury. Of these false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crvoked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place;... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 170 pages
...knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. — Johnson. 2. Of these, the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst. — Dryden. 3. Like other dull men, the king was all his life suspicious of superior people. — Thackeray.... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1866 - 208 pages
...kissed the sacred ground. Not for thou wert a princess, but that Love Had robed thee with a glory." 6 " A name to all succeeding ages curst, For close designs and crooked counsels fit." 7 " Nor slept the winds 149. He who shrinks from my first Must prepare for the worst.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 454 pages
...king only." Dryden, in his poem of Absalom and Achitophel , gives this portrait of the latter : — "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... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light. DESCRIPTION OF A BOLD BAD MAN. 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... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...Religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light. DESCRIPTION OP A BOLD BAD MAN. 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 434 pages
...king only." Dryden, in his poem of Absalom and Achitopbel, gives this portrait of the latter : — " 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, imtixM in principles and place ; In... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 782 pages
...King only." 1 )ryden, in his poem of Absalom and Atkiiopkdi gives this portrait of the lalter : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first : A name to all succeeding ages curst ; Knr close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kesiless, unfix... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 780 pages
...of Absalom and Athitopiicli gives this portrait of the latter : — " Of these the false Achitophcl was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unftx'd in principles and place ;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...remarkable instance. Having dined at Lord Clarendon's with Lord Southampton, liu said, Restless, unfix'd es ! How far I may be allowed to speak my opinion in this case, I know not : but I am s which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.... | |
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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... 
