 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 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, but could ne'er be chief. Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left." Absalom and Achitophsl.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 strani
...by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from court ; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: * De Grammont, who knew Buckingham intimately, confirms in part the justice of this description. 'The... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1855 - 570 strani
...by fools, who still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate. He laughed himself from court : then sought relief By forming parties,...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left."* This fine poetical portrait is familiar with every one. Sketched by the hand of a great master. —... | |
 | 1855 - 834 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,...means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.f CHARACTER OP DOEG, OR ELKANAH SETTLE. FROM ТПЕ SAME. DOEG, though without knowing how or... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 strani
...fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. Ho laugh 'd himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties,...Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left no faction, but of that was left. Titles and names 'twere tedious to rehearse Of lords, below the dignity... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 strani
...late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate. Ho laugh'd himself from court, then sought relief 3y forming parties, but could ne'er be chief: For, spite...Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left no faction, but of that was left. Titles and names 'twere tedious to rehearse Of lords, below the dignity... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 strani
...by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, and they had his estate; He laughed himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties,...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. MANKIND. (From Jill for Love.) Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 strani
...had his estate ; He laughed himself from court, then sought relief By forming parties, but could not be chief. For, spite of him, the weight of business...bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. DRYDEN. 37. CHARACTER OP SHAFTESBURY. OF these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding... | |
 | JOHN GRAY - 1857 - 784 strani
...own language the traits satirised by the poet. C b) Dryden's description concludes as follows : — Thus wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left. Explain the couplet. VIII. Paraphrase fully, but exactly, the passages that follow, te express the... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 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, but could ne'er be chief." The finest skill of the satirist was shown in his choice of the minerable points of character. Buckingham... | |
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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... 
