| David Masson - 1874 - Počet stránok 400
...character of Shaftesbury,— "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; Eestless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
| 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... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - Počet stránok 336
...Shaftesbury as Achitophel: 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 soul, which working... | |
| 1981 - Počet stránok 532
...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, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which, working... | |
| Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - Počet stránok 514
...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, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working... | |
| 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... | |
| Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - Počet stránok 380
...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 - Počet stránok 484
...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... | |
| Mary Lou Lustig - 2002 - Počet stránok 356
...Machinations, 1678-1680 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. — John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"' THE "ACHITOPHEL" DESPISED BY DRYDEN, WAS ANTHONY ASHLEYCooper,... | |
| John Carrington - 2003 - Počet stránok 344
...neatly as a villain: 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 soul, which, working... | |
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