Achitophel

ACHIT'OPHEL, "Him who drew Achitophel," Dryden, author of the famous political satire of _Absalom and Achitophel_.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

"Achitophel") as lord chancellor of England, clad in ash-colored robes, because he had never been called to the bar.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Should they treat the lads to the allegorical Absalom and Achitophel, in which the poet uses the Old Testament story of Absalom's rebellion against King David as a device for attacking Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II, along with his fellow participants in the exclusion crisis, an episode with which most members of the current cabinet are no doubt familiar?

Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010

For political as well as for moral reasons Dryden's lines in Absalom and Achitophel, a parody of English radical Protestants under the Glorious Revolution, became more and more apt:

The Deadlocked City Elon, Amos 2001

ATTRIBUTION: JOHN DRYDEN, Absalom and Achitophel, part 2, lines 268–69, p. 9 (1682, reprinted 1970).

John Dryden (1631-1700) 1989

And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man should consult God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel, both when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

But if thou return into the city, and wilt say to Absalom: I am thy servant, O king: as I have been thy father's servant, so I will be thy servant: thou shalt defeat the counsel of Achitophel.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

Achitophel, the Hind and Panther of Dryden, the philosophic strain of

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

As for the City Bard, or Knight Physician, I hear his quarrel to me is, that I was the author of _Absalom and Achitophel_, which he thinks was a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London.

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