 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
 | Cornwall (England : County) - 1862 - 500 pages
...course, remember the AcMtophel of Dryden's immortal satire : — " A name to all succeeding ages cnrst; For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Eestless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...interred with great pomp in Westminster Abbey. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." CHARACTER OP SHAFTESBURY. OP 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 ; •... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 720 pages
...curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fît; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd,...impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out ils way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. LITT. ANGL. II —... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...Monmouth. 3. Le comte de Shaftesbury. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A naine to ail succeediog ages curst : 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 : A fiery soul,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...she join'd the other two. FROM 'ABSALOM AND ACHITOFHEL.' 149. CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBDRY (ACHITOPHEL). Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1864 - 518 pages
...h:id 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pages
...Duke of York from the succession.] Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to all sxicceeding 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 soul,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 442 pages
...than I can gently. 2. Charles I°r. — 3. Le duc de Monmouth. 4. Le comte de Shaftesbury. Of these false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding...counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 446 pages
...ease, than I can gently. 2. Charles 1". — 3. Le duc de Monmouth. 4. Le comte de Shaftesbury. Of these false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crvoked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place;... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1866 - 208 pages
...kissed the sacred ground. Not for thou wert a princess, but that Love Had robed thee with a glory." 6 " A name to all succeeding ages curst, For close designs and crooked counsels fit." 7 " Nor slept the winds 149. He who shrinks from my first Must prepare for the worst. 1 A graceful... | |
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