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" 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... "
A History of English Literature for Secondary Schools - Page 146
by James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 394 pages
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 9

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...VII. 6 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...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

England - 1821 - 778 pages
...close designs and crooked councils tit, JSagacions, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix V in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sore to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should...
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Hudibras: A Poem, Volume 2

Samuel Butler - 1822 - 496 pages
...Pryden_dww«-4us-cha-'i racter in his Poem of Absolom and Achilophel, with great strength : " and force^>FcoTourmg">^ false Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unlix'd in principle and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working...
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Hudibras: A Poem, Volume 2

Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unlix'd in principle and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay : And o'er iuform'd the tenement of clay, A daring pilot in1 extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the...
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Novels and tales of the author of Waverley, Volume 12

sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 546 pages
...delicate stomach, than those of 'Kitt-master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwaeket. - . CHAPTER XII. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In power unpleascd, impatient in disgrace. ABSALOM and ACHITOPHEL....
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

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, which, working...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 24

British poets - 1822 - 316 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,...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 157

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,...Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

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,...
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