 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 страници
...slave of state; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 страници
...slave of state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 страници
...and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax : — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 страници
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 страници
...and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax : — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | 1871 - 650 страници
...and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax : — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 страници
...slave of state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn SSo That from his disobedient son were lorn.J Jotham§ of piercing || wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught i To move assemblies, who but only tried *\ The worse a while, then chose the better bide\ 885 Nor... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1871 - 616 страници
...and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and bv learning taught To move assemblies ; who but only iried The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned ihe balance too. Absalom and Achitophel. Lord Halifax says, " Mr. Dryden told me that ne wae... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 642 страници
...of Dryden in "Absalom and Achitophel." which was published in the end of the following year : — " Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learn1ng taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 страници
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolirigbroke, of Charles... | |
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Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies... 
