 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...  London Society - Page 127edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...VII. 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...curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; "K 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,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in |>ow'r and jniUic orlicc high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could lie. d him twice: To the same life none ever twice awoke....the same ; the same we think 3ur life, though stil ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Hcsiless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r ilnpleas'd,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...(with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitoplicl 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,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...pnhlic oflice kigni Strong bands, 'it bands ongrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitnphel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked couusclt fit; Sagacious, hold, and turbulent of nit ; Restless, unfix' d in principles and place; In... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...throne, Were rais'il in pmrer and public office high; Strong bands, if band^ ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding aces curst: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...his character in his Poem of Absolom and Achitophel with great strength and force of colouring : " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...succeeding ages curst, For close designs, and crooked cotmseli fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principle and place; In power... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 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...curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleased,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 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...curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...character in his Poem of Absolom and Achitophel, with great strength and force of colouring: — " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to...curst, For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principle and place ; HUDtBRAS. A fiery... | |
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