 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 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. ******* FROM RELIGIO LAICI Oh, but, says one, Tradition set aside, 276... | |
 | Austin Brereton - Adelphi (London, England) - 1907 - 376 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief; For spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, or wise Achitophel ; Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." Buckingham, whose estates had been confiscated by Cromwell in 1648,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise faction, but of that was left. MAC FLECKXOE.* All human things are subject to decay And, when Fate... | |
 | Brander Matthews - English language - 1911 - 300 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 heroic couplet, which seems to be best fitted for satire, Dryden... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 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 'twere tedious to rehearse Of lords below the dignity... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 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. REASON AND RELIGION (From Religio Laid) DIM as the borrow'd beams of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 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. FROM THE HIND AND THE PANTHER 6 A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For spite of him, the weight of business fell 565 On Absalom and wise u 7 faction, but of that was left. FROM THE HIND AND THE PANTHER • A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For spite of him, the weight of business fell 18° On Absalom and wise win Almiron faction, but of that was left. [From The Hind and Ihe Panther, 1687] A milk-white Hind, immortal and... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 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." JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) Philosophical and political writer. His chief... | |
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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... 
