 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...  Hudibras, a Poem - Page 317by Samuel Butler - 1819Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high : Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. still are pleas'd too little or too much. At tit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd,... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...of a decided increase in executive independence. AN AMERICAN. ANECDOTES OF A GREAT PARTY LEADER. " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...throne, Were raised in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless,... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Law - 1825 - 338 pages
...wretched to redress, Swift of dispatch, and easy of access." " Yet in another place he calls him— " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit j Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - Conspiracies - 1829 - 332 pages
...Drydcn has described this statesmen in a strain of exquisite satire in his Absalom and Achitophel : " The false Achitophel was first A name to all succeeding...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; liestless, unfixed in principles and place, Jn power unpleased, impatient of disgrace." wit, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - 400 pages
...an end to the dilemma: " Sir James Turner must give his parole, or be laid in irons." CHAPTER XII. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. Absalom and AchitoplulTHE village of Inverary, now a neat... | |
 | John Galt - Fiction - 1830 - 212 pages
...written all over with intimations as dismal as the lurid sentence of the Baby onian King. CHAPTER XIX. " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit." DRYDEN. Box whatever was the distressful state of the Queen's mind, it was enviable compared to that... | |
 | 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 - 650 pages
...him we are content to say, (with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy... | |
 | 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 - 654 pages
...him we are content to say, (with some reservation, however,) as Dryden did of his predecessor — ' Of these the false Achitophel was first — A name...fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace But praise deserved no enemy... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...celebrated Earl of Shaftesbury, under the name of Achitophel. A man, insinuating, imposing in VOL. I. K A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and crooked councils fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ;... | |
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