 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 Life of John Locke - Page 137by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed; For 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high : Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. still are pleas'd too little or too much. At tit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...throne, 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 to all succeeding ages cursed ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless,... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...of a decided increase in executive independence. AN AMERICAN. ANECDOTES OF A GREAT PARTY LEADER. " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - Conspiracies - 1829 - 332 pages
...Drydcn has described this statesmen in a strain of exquisite satire in his Absalom and Achitophel : " The false Achitophel was first A name to all succeeding...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; liestless, unfixed in principles and place, Jn power unpleased, impatient of disgrace." wit, the... | |
 | John Galt - Fiction - 1830 - 212 pages
...written all over with intimations as dismal as the lurid sentence of the Baby onian King. CHAPTER XIX. " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit." DRYDEN. Box whatever was the distressful state of the Queen's mind, it was enviable compared to that... | |
 | 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 - 654 pages
...him we are content to say, (with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved... | |
 | 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 - 650 pages
...him we are content to say, (with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...celebrated Earl of Shaftesbury, under the name of Achitophel. A man, insinuating, imposing in VOL. I. K A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and crooked councils fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ;... | |
 | 576 pages
...of ruch times in the well-known character of Shartesbury, the master-intriguer of that age : — " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, lit -tit'", unfixed in principles and place, In pow'r iinpleau'd, impatient of disgrace ; A 6ery soul,... | |
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