 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: A fiery...  A manual of English literature - Page 308by Thomas Arnold - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | England - 1821 - 778 pages
...close designs and crooked councils tit, JSagacions, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix V in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sore to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel* was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst :...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-iriform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 pages
...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...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 waves... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 496 pages
...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 inform'd the tenement of clay, A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...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, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 546 pages
...delicate stomach, than those of 'Kitt-master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwaeket. - . CHAPTER XII. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In power unpleascd, impatient in disgrace. ABSALOM and ACHITOPHEL.... | |
 | 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,...Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...public office high : Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel or too much. At tit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd,... | |
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