| George Edward Cokayne - 1926 - 746 oldal
...grade, the greatest probably of his period, the " Jotham" of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel — "Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies " — though, according to Bishop Burnet, he " changed sides so often that in the conclusion no side... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 oldal
...Countess ("Sacharissa")- — CRAIK, HENRY, 1894, erf., English Prose, vol. HI, p. 207, PERSONAL Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 oldal
...state ; Whom David's love with honours did adorn 'H<H() That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance... | |
| William Larkin Webb - 1912 - 280 oldal
...properly and truly portray John James Ingalls. As Dryden described Halifax so may Ingalls be described: "Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, "Endued by...nature and by learning taught "To move assemblies." Mr. Speaker, Kansas acts wisely in honoring John Jfames Ingalls, for in honoring' him she also honors... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 oldal
...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1923 - 196 oldal
...Whom David's love with honours did adorn 880 ^^ — That from his disobedient son were torn. Jothani of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side, Nor chose alone, but turned the balance... | |
| John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 oldal
...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 by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse a while, then chose the better side; 885 Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
| Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 oldal
...state: 875 Whom David's love with honors did adorn. That from his disobedient son were torn. Jo than rivnl of his beams Launched on the bosom of the silver Thames. Fair nymphs, and well-dressed youths who but only tried sso The worse a while, then chose the better side: Nor chose alone, but turned the... | |
| Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 oldal
...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 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 turned the balance... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 oldal
...king. In Dry den's Absalom and Achitophel, it stands for George Saville, marquis of Halifax. Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies . . . turned the balance, too ; So much the weight of one brave man can do. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel,... | |
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