 | 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... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 332 pages
...immortalized in all his demonic phosphoresecence by John Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel as a man For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit. Using Charles IFs eldest bastard son, the glamorous Duke of Monmouth, as a popular figurehead, Shaftesbury... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - History - 2002 - 380 pages
...all revolutions, his fortunes had constantly been rising.' He lives for ever as Dryden's Achitophel : For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious,...fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first: 150 A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity:... | |
 | Mary Lou Lustig - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 356 pages
...to be well pleased with the services of Edmund Andros. 5 Andros and Imperial Machinations, 1678-1680 Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. — John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"' THE "ACHITOPHEL" DESPISED BY DRYDEN, WAS ANTHONY ASHLEYCooper,... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 322 pages
...portrait of the Earl of Shaftesbury in all his damaged and damaging energy - this corporeal triplet? A fiery Soul, which working out its way,~^ Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: > And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay. J (Works n: 10, lines 156-8) Dryden's triplet animates not only... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...is to turn the object into something greater, as were transformed the verses of Cowley quoted above. A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er informed the tenement of clay.21 These lines are not merely a magnificent tribute. They create... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...meets, instead of milk, a falling tear. (Absalom and Achitophel, 1681) (Shaftesbury) (Monmouth) - 150-70 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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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... 
