 | 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise ich, written in a different hand — said to be Sidney's own — we faction, but of that was left. Shaßtsbury's Address to Monmoulh. — From the same. Auspicious prince,... | |
 | William Collins - 1877 - 104 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 CHAKACTER OF A GOOD PARSON. FROM "TALES PEOM CHAUCER." PARISH priest... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1878 - 518 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. ») ©lingebt? SBet^el. **) Shimei, whose youth did early promise bring... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 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. ALEXANDER'S FEAST. \ 'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...Dryden as Bayes in The Rehearsal. 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. SHADWELL. [From Mac Flectaae; October, 1682.] All human things are subject... | |
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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... 
