 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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. a gestum, or heroic exploit ; and a gestour was a narrator of such deeds... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871 - 930 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. The " Religio Laid," or " The Layman's Faith ;" and " The Hind and the... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 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. . . . Shimei,1 whose youth did early promise bring Of zeal to God and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite of him, the weight of business fell 565 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 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. . . . Shimei,1 whose youth did early promise bring Of zeal to God and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite of him, the weight of business fell 565 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... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For spite of him, the weight of business fell 565 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite of him, the weight of business fell 565 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite of him, the weight of business fell 565 JOn 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For, spite of him the weight of business fell ess 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... | |
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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... 
