 | 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...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 страници
...pregnant Thought : Endew'd by Nature, and by Learning taught To move Assemblies, who but onely tri'd The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turn'd the Balance too ; So much the weight of one brave man can do. See also Dryden's dedication to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 страници
...Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 ^^ — That from his disobedient son were torn. Jothani of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1923 - 352 страници
...Endew'd by nature and by learning taught To move Assemblies, who but onely tri'd The worse a while, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the Balance too ; So much the weight of one brave man can do. Indeed, for all that he is called the Trimmer, Halifax... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side; 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | 1926 - 1090 страници
...slave of state ; Whom David's love with honors did adorn sso That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - 1926 - 742 страници
...grade, the greatest probably of his period, the " Jotham " of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophcl — " Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies " — though, according to Bishop Burnet, he " changed sides so often that in the conclusion no side... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 страници
...state: 875 Whom David's love with honors did adorn. That from his disobedient son were torn. Jo than of piercing wit, and pregnant thought; Endued by nature,...learning taught To 'move assemblies, who but only tried sso The worse a while, then chose the better side: Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too; So... | |
 | 1839 - 564 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... | |
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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... 
