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Also in Matthew Taubman's A Medley on the Plot, this stanza occurs: Confound the hypocrites, Birminghams royal, Who think allegiance a transgression; Since to oppose the King is counted loyal, And to rail high at the succession. Dryden in his Preface to Absalom and Achitophel, I, speaks of 'an Anti-Bromingham', i.e. a Tory. p. 100 dry bobs. A bob was a sarcastic jest or jibe. cf.
I cannot believe that the men who have left us the Bible as we have it were so abounding in talent that they attempted setting about such a method of demonstration, still less can I suppose that we cannot understand Scriptural doctrine till we have given heed to the quarrels of Isaac, the advice of Achitophel to Absalom, the civil war between Jews and Israelites, and other similar chronicles; nor can I think that it was more difficult to teach such doctrine by means of history to the Jews of early times, the contemporaries of Moses, than it was to the contemporaries of Esdras.
And now D. showed; his full powers. The first part of Absalom and Achitophel appeared in 1681, in which Charles figures as "David," Shaftesbury as "Achitophel," Monmouth as "Absalom," Buckingham as "Zimri," in the short but crushing delineation of whom the attack of the Rehearsal was requited in the most ample measure. The effect; of the poem was tremendous.
Will you credit that he twice or thrice referred to Settle's reply to "Absalom and Achitophel" by the title of "Absalom Transposed," when every schoolgirl knows that the thing was called "Achitophel Transposed"! This was monstrous enough, but there was something still more contemptible. He positively, I assure you, attributed the play of "Epsom Wells" to Crowne!
There, is much reason to suspect, however, that "The Rehearsal" was not forgotten, when the "Absalom and Achitophel" was written, and that the character of Zimri gathered much of its intense vigor and depth of shadow from recollections of the ludicrous Mr. Bayes. The portrait has the look of being designed as a quittance in full of old scores.
It is not the manifestation of any limited personality with all his or her idiosyncrasies, but the manifestation of the basic principle of Humanity itself common to us all. To quote Dryden's words but in a very different sense to that intended in "Absolom and Achitophel," such a one must be "Not one, but all Mankind's epitome."
He may have found some consolation in his succession to Dryden as Poet Laureate when, at the Revolution, the latter was deprived of the office. Other plays are Epsom Wells , The Virtuoso , Lancashire Witches , The Volunteers , etc. Philosopher, b. in London, grandson of the 1st Earl, the eminent statesman, the "Achitophel" of Dryden.
It is said of him that he was so extremely modest that he was never able to make his fortune or to raise himself above necessity. He was not too modest, however, to dare to make a metrical version of the Psalms, to write an improvement of King Lear, and a continuation of Absalom and Achitophel. Brady equally modest translated the Aeneid in rivalry of Dryden.
He is best known by his Azaria and Hushai , in reply to Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, distinguished from the other replies by its moderation and freedom from scurrility.
The unanimous votes of the two houses of parliament, and the names, as well as the number of those who pronounced Lord Strafford to be guilty, seem to put this beyond a doubt. Dryden, writing soon after the time, says, in his "Absalom and Achitophel," that the plot was "Bad in itself, but represented wore:" that "Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies:" and that
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