 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
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 pages
...had made, and valued himself upon effecting them at the properest season, and in the best manner : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : In friendship... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 418 pages
...had made, and valued himself upon effecting them at the properest season, and in the best manner : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : In friendship... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 660 pages
...delicate stomach, than those of Ritt- master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. CHAPTER XII. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In pow'r unpleased, impatient in disgrace. Absalom and AcMtophd... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and puhlic oflice high 4 Strong hands, if hands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first ;* A name...close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unftYd in principles and place ; ID power unpleas'd, impatient... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...ihn power to which they could not »ise. Some had in courts been great, and thrown from thence, blow, Of these the false Achitophel was first ;* A name to all succeeding agea curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ;... | |
 | Fashion - 1849 - 468 pages
...imprisoned for life or lengthened periods, and the baseminded government had the meanness to dis* " Of these, the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst." " The Colonel's spirits," says Mrs. Hurchinson, " were provoked with the sight of tbeir judges, among... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 466 pages
...hot bed nursed in England, I subjoin the character of Shaftesbury from Dryden's great hand : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to...ages curst. For close designs, and crooked counsels {'it ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'd in principles and place ; In power... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...Shaftesburr, the victim of too keen and fervent intellect, who is drawn under the name of Achitophel : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...succeeding ages curst; For close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd in principles and place.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...JOHN DRYDEN. [Born. 1631. Died, 1700.] CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." OP these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all...counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd, in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...his verse it would be vain to eulogise. [Character of Shaftcsbury.] [From ' Absalom and Achitophel.'] same writer has pointed out the entircness of Browne...he has no occasion to wander ; for whatever happe ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul,... | |
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