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The controversial and satirical poems are on a higher plane; though, it must be confessed, Dryden's satire often strikes us as cutting and revengeful, rather than witty. The best known of these, and a masterpiece of its kind, is "Absalom and Achitophel," which is undoubtedly the most powerful political satire in our language.
You, sir, I am sure, must particularly admire him as an excellent satirist; his "Absalom and Achitophel" is a masterpiece in that way of writing, and his "Mac Flecno" is, I think, inferior to it in nothing but the meanness of the subject. Boileau. Did not you take the model of your "Dunciad" from the latter of those very ingenious satires? Pope.
THE privilege that statesmen ever claim, Who private interest never yet pursued, But still pretended 'twas for others' good. ...... From hence on every humorous wind that veered With shifted sails a several course you steered. Absalom and Achitophel, Part ii. LORD VARGRAVE had for more than a fortnight remained at the inn at M , too ill to be removed with safety in a season so severe.
All this jargon I answer with corresponding blarney of my own, for "have I not licked the black stone of that ancient castle?" As to French, I speak it as it comes, and like Doeg in Absalom and Achitophel " dash on through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in." We went this morning with M. Gallois to the Church of St.
I have known those who thought Grey a nobler Gracchus and a more practical Gordon; and I have known those who thought him a mean copy of Dryden's Achitophel. His island-retreat, where Froude described him as a kind of evangelical Cincinnatus, seemed to others merely the convenient lurking-place of a political rogue-elephant.
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