 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite of him the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise h h d sxn s t t t g faction, but ofthat was left. Titles and names 'twere tedious to rehearse Of lords, below the dignity... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell ses On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. Titles and names 'twere tedious to rehearse Of lords, below the dignity... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 516 pages
...paraphrasing the speech to his Oxford For, spite of htm, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. "] parliament, at least the most striking passages, as a conclusion... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. Titles and names 't were tedious to rehearse Of lords, below the dignity... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief ; For spite of him the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left f[» This last couplet is borrowed from w>mo lines under a portrait of... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...parlies, but could ne'er bo chief; For eplte of him the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus wicked but In will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." 1842.1 Churchill. " Next day the post-boy winde his horn, And rides... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief, For spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel. Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." present domain was formerly the property of the Friends, descendants... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - England - 1845 - 472 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For, spite of him, the weight of bus'ness fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel :* Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." On the death of Charles, Buckingham retired from Court to live on the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite of him the weight of business fell On Absalom and false Achitophel Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.' i " Character of the Duke of Buckingham."— The duke intrigued against... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For spite of him the weight of business fell On Absalom and false Achitophel. Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.2 1 " Character of 'the Duke of Buckingham." — The duke intrigued against... | |
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He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that... 
