 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 страници
...David's love with honours did adorn, That from his disobedient son were torn: .lotham, of piereing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by Nature, and by...assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then ehose the better side •. Nor ehose alone, but turn'd the balanee tooi So mueh the weight of one brave... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 страници
...adorn, That from his disobedient son were torn. I Jotham, of piercing wit, and pregnant thought,|| i Endued by nature, and by learning taught, To move assemblies, who but only tried The worst a-while, then chose the better side. Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance too ; So much the... | |
 | 1822 - 314 страници
...slave of state; Whom David's love with honours did adorn, That from his disobedient son were torn: Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...then chose the better side : Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance too; So much the weight of one brave man can do. Hushai, the friend of David in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 страници
...from his disobedient son were torn : Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by Injure, and by Learning taught, To move assemblies, who but...then chose the better side : Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance too ; So much the weight of one brave man can do. Hushai, the friend of David in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...slave of state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn, That from his disobedient eon were torn. ne ; You'll spend in coach-hire more than save in...shower your shooting corns presage, Old aches will thro try'd The worse awhile, then chose the better side : Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance too; So... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 страници
...Whom David's love with honours did adorn, That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piereing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature, and by...learning taught, To move assemblies ; who but only try'd The worse awhile, then ehose the better side : Vor ehose alone, but turn'd the balanee too ;... | |
 | Roger North - 1826 - 498 страници
...not bear to be out of business." (Burnet.) Dryden thus describes him in his Absalom and Achitophel. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought Endued...nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, but who only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance... | |
 | Roger North - 1826 - 496 страници
...not bear to be out of business." (Burnel.') Dryden thus describes him in his Absalom and Achitophel. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought Endued...nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, but who only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance... | |
 | Roger North - 1826 - 516 страници
...piercing wit and pregnant thought Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, but who only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but tttrn'd the balance too, So much the weight of one brave man can do. Lord Halifax is said to have left... | |
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Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought,* Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too— So much the weight of one brave... 
