 | 1855 - 620 pages
...was a lawless and profligate ambition, which formed the motive power of his splendid talents, — ' In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved to ruin or to rule the State.' The portrait of him drawn by Drydeu in his great satire, is VOL. CII. NO. CCVII. C as faithful to the moral... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...extraordinary personage. Anecd. vol.vp 54. J . 3 [Dryden characterizes him in his well-known satire; " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixt in principles and place ; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace. in him to brag... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bunds ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imfiv'd hi principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel * was first ; "K A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In pow'r uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery sonl,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...ungrateful men could lie. Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst: ; the same we think 3ur life, though still more rapid in its flow ; Nor mark the ; Hcsiless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r ilnpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery attul,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitoplicl was first — A name to all succeeding ages curst; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding aces curst: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd, impotent of disgrace: A fiery soul,... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 396 pages
...taken from life. — Compare the following lines with the above speech, and then, reader, determine : " In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this, the triple hond he broke ; "1 The pillars of the publick safety shook ; V And fitted... | |
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Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit... 
