 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 378 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom amd wise Achitophel. Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. Dryden continued throughout his career to exercise a dictatorship in... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 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. Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY, 22ND NOVEMBER,... | |
 | Edward Albert - English literature - 1923 - 648 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. From this passage quote the lines which hint that Buckingham is respectively... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - Wit and humor - 1923 - 804 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. MILTON COMPARED WITH HOMER AND VIRGIL Under a Picture of Milton in the... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English literature - 1923 - 328 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. Yet a little more scarifying still is his description of Slingsby Bethel... | |
 | Thora Guinevere Stone - Great Britain - 1923 - 286 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. 8. [Appointment of Henry Purcell, organist of Westminster Abbey, to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 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... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 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. Surrounded thus with friends of every sort, 682 Deluded Absalom forsakes... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 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 Song for St. Cecilia's Day FROM harmony, from heavenly harmony This... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For spite of him, the weight of business fell 565 On Absalom and wise faction, but of that was left. FROM THE HIND AND THE PANTHER ยป A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged,... | |
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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... 
