The Crafting of Absalom and Achitophel: Dryden’s Pen for a PartyWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1978 - 239 стор. The Crafting of Absalom and Achitophel |
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4 RESOLVED TO RUIN OR TO RULE | 49 |
5 DEBAUCHED WITH PRAISE | 67 |
6 ROGUES GALLERY | 85 |
7 THE BROTHERS ROYAL | 125 |
8 THIS SHORT FILE | 139 |
9 VARRONIAN SATIRE | 163 |
10 OUR COURT OF CHANCERY | 175 |
PROPER NAMES AND THEIR COUNTERPARTS | 215 |
INDEX | 217 |
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Absalom and Achitophel action Agag allusion ambition Anglicans appear argument Barzillai Biblical name Buckingham called cause character charge Charles Charles's chiasmus Church Cicero Commonwealth concerned Corah coud couplet course Court Crowd danger David Dissenters Dryden's readers Duke of Monmouth Duke of York Earl of Ossory elements England English evidently Exclusion Bill Exclusion Crisis fact factious father fool further grace Heaven heroic House of Commons Israel James Jebusites Jews John Dryden kind King's Levites liberty London Lord loyal meaning ment Michal mind moderate readers monarch murder nation nature Oates's pamphlet Papists parallel Parliament person phrase Poems on Affairs political Popish Plot praise presented Priests Prince Protestant publick qualities reason rebel refers remind Roman Catholics royal royal monarch satire says Shaftesbury Shimei Slingsby Bethel speech support the King things throne Titus Oates Tory Vertues Whigs wished words woud Zimri
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Сторінка 92 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Сторінка 61 - For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Сторінка 198 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Сторінка 198 - In the first rank of these did Zimri ' stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon...
Сторінка 79 - NAY, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure : those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front...
Сторінка 104 - Of zeal to God, and hatred to his king; Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, And never broke the Sabbath, but for gain: Nor ever was he known an oath to vent, Or curse, unless against the government. Thus, heaping wealth, by the most ready way Among the Jews, which was to cheat and pray; The city, to reward his pious hate Against his master, chose him magistrate: His hand a vare of justice did uphold; His neck was loaded with a chain of gold.
Сторінка 185 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Сторінка 185 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Сторінка 61 - Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge. In Israel's courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin With more discerning eyes or hands more clean, Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch and easy of access.