| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 530 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief: For spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absaiom and wise Achitophel ; Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. SHADWELL. [From Mac Flecknoe; October, 1682.] AH human things are subject... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1896 - 520 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. SHADWELL. [From Mac Flicknoe ; October, 1682.] All human things are... | |
| Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 pages
...could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell 1 Buckingham. 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... | |
| Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...could ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell 1 Buckingham. 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... | |
| Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 342 pages
...ne'er be chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell 1 Buckingham. * 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 hatred... | |
| Elizabeth Lee - English literature - 1898 - 258 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. In the ranks of the opposition are also to be found the clergy " Who... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1899 - 346 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief : For spite of him, the weight of business fell To Absalom and wise Achitophel.' Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. THE CHEATS OF HOPE. [From " Aurengzebe."] WHEN I consider life, 'tis... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 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. SLINOSBY BETHEL. Shimei, whose youth did early promise bring Of zeal... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 434 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 BETHEL. His hand a vare of justice did uphold ; His neck was loaded with... | |
| Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 528 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief; 565 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. BARZILLAI IN this short file Barzillai first appears; Barzillai, crowned... | |
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