 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...  The Life of John Locke - Pagina 137door Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 506 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pagina’s
...things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. Absalom and Achitophel ( 1 68 1 1 pt. i, 1. 83 21 Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst. 279 JOHN »RYIJlíN In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which working out its... | |
 | James Noggle - 2001 - 288 pagina’s
...a line of self-contradicting figures in post-Restoration literature, including Dryden's Achitophel, "Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, / Restless, unfix'd in principles and place" (153-4). Wharton, similarly, is 'A Fool, with more of Wit than half mankind, / Too quick for Thought,... | |
 | Mary Lou Lustig - 2002 - 356 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - 380 pagina’s
...all revolutions, his fortunes had constantly been rising.' He lives for ever as Dryden's Achitophel : 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 which, working... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pagina’s
...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, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pagina’s
...dismissals of Shaftesbury. And identifying him with Achitophel of course 'places' him neatly as a villain: Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pagina’s
...men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first,0 150 A name to all succeeding ages cursed: 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, which, working... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 2009 - 656 pagina’s
...stand out among the other Machiavellians of Charles II's “merrie reign” that John Dryden named him “For close designs and crooked counsels fit / Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit.” One of Cooper's standard ploys was to procure female companionship for toadies and co-conspirators... | |
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