 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 halaman
...Achitophel: "Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thonght, Endued by nature, and by learning tanght To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile,...then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too— So much the weight of one brave man can do." JOSEPH ADDISON. MEDITATIONS... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 halaman
...slave of state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 halaman
...slave of state; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 halaman
...and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax : — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 halaman
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 halaman
...and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax : — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | 1871 - 652 halaman
...and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax : — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 halaman
...slave of state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn SSo That from his disobedient son were lorn.J Jotham§ of piercing || wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught i To move assemblies, who but only tried *\ The worse a while, then chose the better bide\ 885 Nor... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1871 - 616 halaman
...and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and bv learning taught To move assemblies ; who but only iried The worse awhile, then chose the better side ; Nor chose alone, but turned ihe balance too. Absalom and Achitophel. Lord Halifax says, " Mr. Dryden told me that ne wae... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 642 halaman
...of Dryden in "Absalom and Achitophel." which was published in the end of the following year : — " Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learn1ng taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side,... | |
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Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thought, Endued by nature, and by learning taught, To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance too, So much the weight of one brave man... 
