 | 1855 - 620 pages
...was a lawless and profligate ambition, which formed the motive power of his splendid talents, — ' In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved to ruin or to rule the State.' The portrait of him drawn by Drydeu in his great satire, is VOL. CII. NO. CCVII. C as faithful to the... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...thing, a son; f 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. To compass this the triple bond he broke ; "} The pillars of the public safety shook ; > And fitted... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 396 pages
...taken from life. — Compare the following lines with the above speech, and then, reader, determine : " In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this, the triple hond he broke ; "1 The pillars of the publick safety shook ; V And fitted... | |
 | Lewis Innes, Thomas Innes, James Stanier Clarke, James II (King of England) - Great Britain - 1816 - 838 pages
...ix. p. 222.) " For close designs, and crooked Counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. In Friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the State." " The Earl of Shaftesbury," says Mr. Scott, (page 326) " was at the head of the Cabal, which advised... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...thing, a son j 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. To compass this, the triple bond he broke; The pillars of the public safety shook, And fitted Israel... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 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 to ruin, or to rule, the state. To compass this, the triple bond he broke ; % . The pillars of the public safety shook, * And fitted... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 800 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 to ruin, or to rule the state." Again, look at the famous sketch of the Duke of Buckingham. " A man so various, that he seem'd to be... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 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 to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke, The pillars of the public safety shook, And fitted Israel... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 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 to ruin or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke, The pillars of the public safety shook, And fitted Israel... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 486 pages
...character of Achitophel, stands in this predicament: ** A name to all succeeding ages curst, * * » * * In friendship false, implacable in hate ; Resolved to ruin, or to rule the state. To compass this the triple bond he broke ; The pillars of the public safety shook ; And fitted Israel... | |
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Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. 
