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...of ruch times in the well-known character of Shartesbury, the master-intriguer of that age : — " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, lit -tit'", unfixed in principles and place, In pow'r iinpleau'd, impatient of disgrace ; A 6ery soul,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 страници
...had made, and valued himself upon effecting them at the properest season, and in the best manner : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin, or to rule the state. Absalom and Achitophel.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 418 страници
...had made, and valued himself upon effecting them at the properest season, and in the best manner : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin, or to rule the state. Absalom and Achitophel.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 660 страници
...delicate stomach, than those of Ritt- master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. CHAPTER XII. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principle and place, In pow'r unpleased, impatient in disgrace. Absalom and AcMtophd THE village of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 страници
...from thence, blow, Of these the false Achitophel was first ;* A name to all succeeding agea curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious,...place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 226 страници
...madhouse ; or, at best, succeed to the delusions, without the cheerful intervals of Cowper. CHAPTER XV. " Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless — unfix'd in principles and place." DRYDEN. " Whoever acquires a very great number of ideas interesting to the society in which he lives,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 224 страници
...madhouse ; or, at best, succeed to the delusions, without the cheerful intervals of Cowper. CHAPTER XV. " Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless — unfix'd in principles and place." DRYDZH. " Whoever acquires a very great number of ideas interesting to the society in which he lives,... | |
 | 1839 - 466 страници
...which working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - 494 страници
...in the former of these poems he is thus characterized — " For close designs and crooked councils fit ; " Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; "..." In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : " A fiery soul, which working out its way, " Fretted the pigmy body to decay." It is however universally... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 страници
...false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst; For close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd in principles and place. In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
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Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit... 
