 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 страници
...slave of state : Whom David's love with honours did adorn, wo That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thought : Endued...learning taught, To move assemblies, who but only tried a man of wit and parts, not a genius. His poems are feeble and flimsy, notwithstanding Dryden has so... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 страници
...compliance with all the evil which was then done was necessary to • Dedication to King Arthur. • bu Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...chose alone, but turned the balance too!" Absalom and Achitufih>:i lord Halifax says, " Mr. Dryden told me that he was offered money to write against me.»... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 страници
...compliance with all the evil which was then done was necessary to * Dedication- to King Arthur, b " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...chose alone, but turned the balance too." Absalom and Achilophel. enable him to save his country from the arbitrary and bigotted faction which was eager... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 402 страници
...Dedication to King Arthnr. b " Jotham, of piercing wil and pregnant thought, Kndued by nature and by leaning taught To move assemblies ; who but only tried The...chose alone, but turned the balance too." Absalom and Achtitfphd. enable him to save his country from the arbitrary and bigottcd faction which was eager... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 766 страници
...of balancing factions, of occasionally leaning to the • Sir "William Temple. Memoirs, Part III. f Dedication to King Arthur. | • Jotham, of piercing...chose alone, but turned the balance too." Absalom and Achitophel. vanquished, and always tempering the triumph of the victorious party by which that monarch... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 376 страници
...occasionally leaning to the vanquished, and always tempering the triumph of the victorious party • " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...chose alone, but turned the balance too." Absalom and Achitophel. Lord Halifax says, " Mr. Dryden told me that he was offered money to write against me."... | |
 | 1835 - 740 страници
...period pursued him with perhaps too just a retribution during the remainder of his life. James * " Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thought, Endued...side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too." — Absolom and Achitophel. See character of Halifax by the continuator of Mackintosh, p. 513. t The... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 784 страници
...occasionally leaning to the • Sir William Temple. Memoirs, Part lit j Dedication to King Arthur. t " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better aide; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too." Msalum and .ichilophel. vanquished, and always... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 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 by nature, and by learning taught, parliamentary deprivation was never to be allowed, and therefore they looked on Sancroft as the archliishop... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 страници
...his'voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryr den 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... | |
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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... 
