 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
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1866 - 170 pages
...knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. — Johnson. 2. Of these, the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst. — Dryden. 3. Like other dull men, the king was all his life suspicious of superior people. — Thackeray.... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves, in supernatural light. DESCRIPTION OF A BOLD BAD MAN. OF these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to...counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 434 pages
...king only." Dryden, in his poem of Absalom and Achitopbel, gives this portrait of the latter : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to...counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imtixM in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul,... | |
 | Ken Post, George D. Jenkins - History - 1973 - 520 pages
...the masses of Nigeria and Ibadan. Yet, 'with some regret' Nicholson found him, quoting John Dryden, For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit, Resdess, unfixed in principle and place, Unpleased in power, impatient of disgrace.70 He concluded... | |
 | John W. Crawford - American literature - 1978 - 216 pages
...first / That practls'd falsehood under saintly show . . . ." (l2l-l22). Oryden says of the plotters, Of these the false Achitophel was first A name to...curst. For close designs and crooked counsels fit . . . (l5O-l52) The words first and false connect the two passages and parallel the false nature of... | |
 | W. Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 248 pages
...balanced one against the other, and by the alliteration. Dryden proceeds: " Quoted in Haley, p. 613. A Name to all succeeding Ages Curst. For close Designs, and crooked Counsell fit; (11. 151-52) The close pattern of k sounds does two things. It suggests that for Dryden... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...interesting and even admirable qualities as men. Consider the famous portrait of Shaftesbury as 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,... | |
 | English language - 1981 - 532 pages
...have been required to teach to students training to be high-school teachers: ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL 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,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 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,... | |
 | John Marshall - History - 1994 - 514 pages
...immediately preceding the description of Shaftesbury used as the opening of Haley's biography of Shaftesbury: 'Of these the false Achitophel was first / A name to all succeeding ages curst'; Sprat, True Account, passim. The importance of the concordia secured by exchange of benefits to the... | |
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