 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, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ;...  Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S.: From His Ms ... - Página 238de Samuel Pepys - 1876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unlix'd in principle and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay : And o'er iuform'd the tenement of clay, A daring pilot in1 extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfiVd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; [high, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | 1902 - 742 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul, which, working...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay." IT is to the first Earl of Shaftesbury, Dryden's Achitophel, and one of Macaulay's Iwtes no-ires, "... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd, Pd /➶հX o'er inform' d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 338 páginas
...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...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." (Alsalom and Achitopkel.) " The discrepancy in the two characters... | |
 | 1829 - 560 páginas
...restlessness of his temper, the constant struggle of a gigantic mind with a weak and feeble frame — ' A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay' — -> his eager longing for the liberation of the spirit from the trammels of earthly cares and sufferings,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...people trust, Well may the baser brass contract a rust. [From Absalom and Achitophel.] THE WIT. A FIBBY soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot In extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms;... | |
 | 576 páginas
...wit, lit -tit'", unfixed in principles and place, In pow'r iinpleau'd, impatient of disgrace ; A 6ery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the wave... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high Pleas* cl with the danger,... | |
 | 1839 - 466 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the... | |
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