 | John Dryden - 1878 - 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 страници
...circles, 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 страници
...voice, sebm to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is descrilied as " not 1>e in any His oratory is utterly and irretiievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1880 - 1246 страници
...Absalom and AcAitOfhel, it stands for George Saville, marquis of Halifax. Jcrfhatn of piercing vit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move nxwmblies . . . turned the balance too; So much the veiftht of one brave man can do. Drrdin, Abtaiom... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1881 - 468 страници
...no principle of any kind, he answered Dryden's description— " Jotham of piercing wit and frequent thought, • Endued by nature, and by learning taught...tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side." The last line is scarcely true, but he well merited the name of Trimmer, his constancy being confined... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 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... | |
 | 1883 - 760 страници
...and least corrupted statesmen oí the time. Dryden describes him as Jotham, in Absalom and AehitopM: 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 ; Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1885 - 670 страници
...piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endow'd by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, imt, turn'd the balance too. So much the weight of one brave man can do. The following sketch of the... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1887 - 276 страници
...forgotten or obscured by the fame of future poets." The character here referred to is that of Jotham in Absalom and Achitophel : — " Jotham of piercing...nature, and by learning taught, To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side : Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance... | |
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Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies... 
