 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...  The English Poets - Page 454edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 642 pages
...Achitophel." 2 Shaftesbury is thus described by Dryden as the worst of the ungrateful opponents of Charles : " Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power nnpleased, impatient of 1 1 Spence's Anecdotes, on Pope's authority, p. 112. 1 See pp. 175-6, and 288... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...high; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, 150 A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs...place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; 155 A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...high; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, 150 A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs...and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; 155 A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 pages
...judgment, in extremes; « So over-violent, or over-civil, That every man with him was God or devil. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power nnpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 pages
...accurate notion of Shaftesbury 's bodily proportions is conveyed by Dryden's nervous couplet : — ' A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.' He took after his mother and maternal grandfather in these respects. ' Sir Anthony Ashley was of great... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 pages
...accurate notion of Shaftesbury 's bodily proportions is conveyed by Dryden's nervous couplet : — ' A fiery soul, which working out its way, ' Fretted...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay." He took after his mother and maternal grandfather in these respects. ' Sir Anthony Ashley was of great... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 510 pages
...statesman of the reign of Charles the Second, and the " Achitophel" of Dryden's poem:— VOL. 11l. 2 '' For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious,...of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, 1n power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...Achitophcl* was first, 150 A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels t fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless,...place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; 155 A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body g to decay And o'er-informed the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 734 pages
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