 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 Seiten
...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,...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay: And o'er informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 1996 - 332 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 Seiten
...chaotic energy,"turbulent of wit ... Restless, unfixed in principles and place," "for calm unfit," A fiery soul, which, working out its way Fretted the...body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. [156-158]6" As order begets order, so also Achitophel, the center of chaos, can produce only chaos,... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - 380 Seiten
...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 - 2002 - 484 Seiten
...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 - 2002 - 356 Seiten
...services of Edmund Andros. 5 Andros and Imperial Machinations, 1678-1680 Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For...counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. — John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"' THE "ACHITOPHEL" DESPISED BY DRYDEN, WAS ANTHONY ASHLEYCooper,... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 Seiten
...identifying him with Achitophel of course 'places' him neatly as a villain: Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For...body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 Seiten
...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 - 2006 - 300 Seiten
...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 - 2006 - 520 Seiten
...(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,...out its way, Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: And o'er informed the Tenement of Clay. A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleased with the Danger, when the... | |
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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... 
