 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 strani
...fools, whom still he found, too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties,...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." The play was instantly damned. — Royal and Noble Authors, v. ii. p. 78. Buckingham's play of " The .... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 strani
...by fools, whom still he found too late; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties,...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. DRTDEN. CHARACTER OF OG. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here's a tun of midnight work... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 strani
...by fools, whom still he found too late; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh'd himself sky : So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, [waves,...walk'd the Where other groves and other streams along, ofthat was left. Titles and names 'twere tedious to rehearse Of lords, below the dignity of verse.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 strani
...estate. He laugh'd himself from eourt ; then sought relief By forming parties, but eould ne'er be ehief: y ? Suffiee that reason keep to nature's road, Subjeet, eompound Aehitophel : Thus, wieked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faetion, but of that was left.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 strani
...fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laugh 'd himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties,...chief: For, spite of him, the weight of business fell ses On Absalom and wise Achitophel : Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction,... | |
 | 1833 - 270 strani
...In squandering wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded but desert. He laugh'd himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief. He had great liveliness of wit, with a peculiar faculty of turning all things into ridicule, but he... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 strani
...Charles himself imposed on Dryden the task of paraphrasing the speech to his Oxford For, spite of htm, the weight of business fell On Absalom and wise Achitophel...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. "] parliament, at least the most striking passages, as a conclusion to his poem of " Absalom and Achitophel."... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 strani
...« horn st 11 he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. Helaugh'd hrnself fiom Court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief ; Bethel, the •Whig sheriff, whose scandalous avarice was only equalled by his factious turbulence... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 strani
...late ; He had his jest and they had his estate, [relief He laugh'd himself from court ; then sought By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief : For,...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. Titles and names 't were tedious to rehearse Of lords, below the dignity of verse. Wits, warriors,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 strani
...estate. He laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er he chief: Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. The difference between the style of versification here exemplified, and that which nourished in earlier... | |
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He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that... 
