 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 Satires of Dryden - Page 8by John Dryden - 1893 - 137 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...extraordinary personage. Anecd. vol.vp 54. J . 3 [Dryden characterizes him in his well-known satire; " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixt in principles and place ; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace. in him to brag... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bunds ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imfiv'd hi principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs,...counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; "K A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs,...counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In pow'r uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery sonl,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitoplicl was first — A name to all succeeding ages curst; For close designs...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...orlicc high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could lie. Of these the false Achitophel was first ; ice awoke. We call the brook the same ; the same we...though still more rapid in its flow ; Nor mark the ; Hcsiless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r ilnpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery attul,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...oflice kigni Strong bands, 'it bands ongrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitnphel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked couusclt fit; Sagacious, hold, and turbulent of nit ; Restless, unfix' d in principles and place; In... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...band^ ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding aces hG E9* FsF =R; C E E ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd, impotent of disgrace: A fiery soul,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...Achitophel with great strength and force of colouring : " Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst, For close designs, and crooked cotmseli fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principle and place; In power... | |
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