 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 438 pages
...and Acbitophel, gives this portrait of the latter : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first j A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ;... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 pages
...which he can receive Shall cost a limb of his prerogative.' Or, in his character of Shaftesbury, ' 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, unfixed in principles and place; In... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...be, Eternal Paraclete, to Thee ! THE CHARACTER OF THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY DELINEATED AS ACHITOPHEL. 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, unfixed in principles and place ; In... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 pages
...figured in Hoamouth's Rebellion, 1685. Absalom is Monmouth; and Achitophel, the Earl of Shaftesbury. 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, unfixed in principles and place ; In... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...she join'd the other two. 112. From 'ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.' CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY (ACHITOPHEL,. 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 : 5 Restless, unfixed in principles and place ;... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 pages
...curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; (15) 16 Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery sou), which, working out its way. Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...she joined the other two. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHIL." J.44. CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY (ACHITOPHM.). Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages cursed : For close designs and crooked coun«?ls fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 486 pages
...king only." Dryden, in his poem of Absalom and Achilophtl, 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 ;... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...ACHITOPHEL." THE CHARACTER OF THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY DELINEATED AS ACHITOPHEL. Of these the false Achitophel1 was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In... | |
 | John W. Crawford - 1978 - 216 pages
...first / That practls'd falsehood under saintly show . . . ." (l2l-l22). Oryden says of the plotters, Of these the false Achitophel was first A name to...succeeding ages curst. For close designs and crooked counsels fit . . . (l5O-l52) The words first and false connect the two passages and parallel the false... | |
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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... 
