Achitophel : adviser of King David of Israel, he joined Absalom’s revolt.
... them it might be sand, modifying Goldsmith's lines on Burke: Born for the universe, he narrowed up his mind, And to himself gave what was meant for mankind. It was not Satan, nor Achitophel, nor Manthara, nor Iago that tempted Pururavas or Ruru; they were but betrayed by the infinitesimal egoistic false within themselves. The Temptation was enacted, in the last resort, only in ...
... as satirical verse are not strictly satirical but have the tone of a more elevated kind of poetry and rise to a very high level of poetic beauty,—for instance Dryden's descriptions of Absalom and Achitophel as opposed to his brilliant assault on the second duke of Buckingham. Or can we say that apart Page 78 from this question of satire we can equal together the best from poetry of a lighter ...
... satirists, Moliere being the prince among them. Samuel Butler's Hudibras was a great example of unadulterated satire. Dignified political satire was carried to perfection in Dryden's Absolm and Achitophel. The Horatian style reached its perfection in France in the satirical writings of Boileau. Alexander Pope in England showed great progress along the line. We should not forget either the names of ...
... Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo, pp. 120-1 24. Purani, The Life, p. 63 25. Ibid., p. 64 26. Sri Aurobindo, Vol 3, pp. 130-31 27. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 11. 156-8 28. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 3, p. 81 29. Purani, The Life, p. 41 30. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 9 31. Ibid., p. 15 32. Ibid., pp. 12-13 ...
... The puny stature of the typical Indian undergraduate must have sorely pained Sri Aurobindo. How true was it of the Indian scholar, as it was true (though the context is different) of Dryden's Achitophel: A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay: And o'er informed the tenement of clay. 27 The average Indian scholar didn't care for physical culture ...
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