 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 418 Seiten
...had made, and valued himself upon effecting them at the properest season, and in the best manner : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : In friendship false, implacable... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 660 Seiten
...delicate stomach, than those of Ritt- master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. CHAPTER XII. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In pow'r unpleased, impatient in disgrace. Absalom and AcMtophd THE... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 Seiten
...puhlic oflice high 4 Strong hands, if hands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first ;* A name to all succeeding ages curst :...close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unftYd in principles and place ; ID power unpleas'd, impatient... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 Seiten
...thrown from thence, blow, Of these the false Achitophel was first ;* A name to all succeeding agea curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which,... | |
 | 1839 - 466 Seiten
...subjoin the character of Shaftesbury from Dryden's great hand : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst. For close designs, and crooked counsels {'it ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'd in principles and place ; In power... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - 494 Seiten
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; " Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; " In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : " A fiery soul, which working out its way, " Fretted the pigmy body to decay." It is however universally admitted, that this nobleman executed the important duties of lord chancellor... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 452 Seiten
...restless tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the earl of Peterborough : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives> was thin... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1024 Seiten
...restless tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement tof clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr Birch's 'Lives,' was thin... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 Seiten
...fervent intellect, who is drawn under the name of Achitophel : — " Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst; For close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd in principles and place.... | |
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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... 
