| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - Počet stránok 344
...figured in Honmonth,ii Rebellion, 1685. Absalom is Honmouth; and Achitophel, tin: Earl of Shaftesbury. 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... | |
| Ken Post, George D. Jenkins - 1973 - Počet stránok 520
...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 - 1978 - Počet stránok 216
...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 - 1978 - Počet stránok 248
...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 - Počet stránok 336
...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...fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which working... | |
| 1981 - Počet stránok 532
...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 - 1993 - Počet stránok 514
...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 - 1994 - Počet stránok 514
...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 - 1996 - Počet stránok 332
...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... | |
| James Noggle - 2001 - Počet stránok 288
...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,... | |
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