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" A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay... "
Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton, an English Officer: Including Anecdotes of ... - Pagina xi
door Daniel Defoe, George Carleton - 1808 - 463 pagina’s
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Poetical Miscellanies: Consisting of Original Poems and Translations

1714 - 528 pagina’s
...Wit : Reftlcfs, unfixt in Principles and Place; In Pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of Difgrace : A firy Soul, which, working out its Way, > Fretted the Pigmy Body to Decay, \ And o'erinforrn'd the Tenement of Clay. J A daring Pilot in Extremity ; Pleas'd with the Danger, when the...
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Original Poems, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1773 - 260 pagina’s
...Reftlefs, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace : A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pagina’s
...Rcftltfs, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace. A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'cr-inform'd the tenement of clav. Adw Youth, beauty, graceful aftion, K But common int'rcft always...
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Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly of the Present ..., Volume 2

William Seward - 1796 - 418 pagina’s
...Reftlefs, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace ; A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body...to decay, And o'er, informed the tenement of clay. Abfalem and Aclitofbtl. Lord Shaftefbury was, perhaps, one of the ableft debaters that ever fat in...
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Anecdotes of Some Distingushed Persons: Chiefly of the Present and ..., Volume 2

William Seward - 1796 - 430 pagina’s
...Reftlefs, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace ; A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. Abfalom and Acbitopbel. Lord Shaftefbury was, perhaps, one of the ableft...
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Dryden. Smyth. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 pagina’s
...Refllefs, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of dif^racc : A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy -body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Plcas'd wit!i the dancer when the...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1801 - 416 pagina’s
...turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unrtx'd in principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And oVi'-iiiform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; r& Pleas'd with the danger, when...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 105

1857 - 610 pagina’s
...ferment their mass of clay,' to that elsewhere described by the same great poet : — ' A fiery soul that working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay, — ' we have every grade of relation between these separate faculties, which in their mysterious conjunction...
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Poetical Works

John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pagina’s
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, imfiv'd hi principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-infornTd tbe tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when the...
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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, Nummers 119-122

1808 - 560 pagina’s
...The famous lines ot" Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough : " ' A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, * And o'er inform'd the tensmenl of clay.' " His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin ;...
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