...immortalized in all his demonic phosphoresecence by John Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel as a man For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit. Using Charles IFs eldest bastard son, the glamorous Duke of Monmouth, as a popular figurehead, Shaftesbury...

...chaotic energy,"turbulent of wit ... Restless, unfixed in principles and place," "for calm unfit," A fiery soul, which, working out its way Fretted the...body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. [156-158]6" As order begets order, so also Achitophel, the center of chaos, can produce only chaos,...

...all revolutions, his fortunes had constantly been rising.' He lives for ever as Dryden's Achitophel : For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious,...fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with...

...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first: 150 A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity:...

...Machinations, 1678-1680 Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. — John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel"' THE "ACHITOPHEL" DESPISED BY DRYDEN, WAS ANTHONY ASHLEYCooper,...

...neatly as a villain: Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should...

...portrait of the Earl of Shaftesbury in all his damaged and damaging energy - this corporeal triplet? A fiery Soul, which working out its way,~^ Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: > And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay. J (Works n: 10, lines 156-8) Dryden's triplet animates not only...

...is to turn the object into something greater, as were transformed the verses of Cowley quoted above. A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er informed the tenement of clay.21 These lines are not merely a magnificent tribute. They create...

...(Monmouth) - 150-70 Of these the false Achitophel was first: A Name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close Designs and crooked Counsels fit; Sagacious,...out its way, Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: And o'er informed the Tenement of Clay. A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleased with the Danger, when the...