| 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,... | |
| Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...parties, but could ne'er be chief; 560 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 't were tedious to rehearse 565 Of lords, bejow the... | |
| Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 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 - English literature - 2003 - 1024 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... | |
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