 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...thing, a sen, Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved...Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves in factious times With public zeal to... | |
 | England - 1880 - 840 pages
...tribune,— " Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power nnpleased, impatient of disgrace; In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved...safety shook, And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke." The large air of Dryden is unsuited, perhaps, for our modest age ; still there are certain touches... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...thing, a son: Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate: Resolved...Then, seized with fear, yet still affecting fame, Usurped a patriot's all-atoning name. So easy still it proves in factious times, With public zeal to... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. 3022 Absalom and Achitophel se any 3023 Absalom and Achitophel All empire is no more than power in trust. 3024 Absalom and Achitophel... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - History - 2002 - 380 pages
...disgrace. A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;...implacable in hate; Resolved to ruin or to rule the State. He was determined to raise the 'No Popery' wind to a hurricane which might rock the throne, especially... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...thing, a son: 170 Got while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved...state; To compass this the triple bond he broke,* 1 The pillars of the public safety shook, f And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke. ' Then, seized with... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...thing, a son, 170 Got, while his soul did huddled notions try; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolved...rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke,0 The pillars of the public safety shook; And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke: Then seized with... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 322 pages
...while execrating Shaftesbury's part in severing the Alliance, Shaftesbury who was "Resolv'd to Ruine or to Rule the State": To Compass this the Triple Bond he broke; ~^ The Pillars of the publick Safety shook: > And fitted Israel for a Foreign Yoke. J (Works Ii: 10, lines 175-7) This triplet... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - Fiction - 2004 - 428 pages
...by his silk tie. "Get out of here, you goddamned Know Nothing, before I wipe up the floor with you." "In friendship false, implacable in hate / Resolved to ruin or to rule the state," Hall said, rescuing his tie. "Is that Shakespeare?" Tweed said. "No," said Hall. "It's Dryden. But... | |
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Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state... 
