 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - Страниц: 518
...h:id made, and valued himself upon effecting them at the properest season, and in the best manner: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin, or to rule the state. Absalom and Achlthophel.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - Страниц: 292
...delicate stomach, than those of Eitt-master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. * CHAPTEE XH. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Kestless, unfix'd in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. ABSALOM AKD ACHITOPHEL.... | |
 | Ken Post, George D. Jenkins - 1973 - Страниц: 520
...the masses of Nigeria and Ibadan. Yet, 'with some regret' Nicholson found him, quoting John Dryden, For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit, Resdess, unfixed in principle and place, Unpleased in power, impatient of disgrace.70 He concluded... | |
 | John W. Crawford - 1978 - Страниц: 216
...practls'd falsehood under saintly show . . . ." (l2l-l22). Oryden says of the plotters, Of these the false Achitophel was first A name to all succeeding...curst. For close designs and crooked counsels fit . . . (l5O-l52) The words first and false connect the two passages and parallel the false nature of... | |
 | W. Thomas - 1978 - Страниц: 248
...balanced one against the other, and by the alliteration. Dryden proceeds: " Quoted in Haley, p. 613. A Name to all succeeding Ages Curst. For close Designs, and crooked Counsell fit; (11. 151-52) The close pattern of k sounds does two things. It suggests that for Dryden... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Страниц: 336
...admirable qualities as men. Consider the famous portrait of Shaftesbury as Achitophel: Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding...fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which working... | |
 | 1981 - Страниц: 532
...ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL 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, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - Страниц: 514
...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, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 1996 - Страниц: 332
...immortalized in all his demonic phosphoresecence by John Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel as a man For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit. Using Charles IFs eldest bastard son, the glamorous Duke of Monmouth, as a popular figurehead, Shaftesbury... | |
 | James Noggle - 2001 - Страниц: 288
...a line of self-contradicting figures in post-Restoration literature, including Dryden's Achitophel, "Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, / Restless, unfix'd in principles and place" (153-4). Wharton, similarly, is 'A Fool, with more of Wit than half mankind, / Too quick for Thought,... | |
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