A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 2941821Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Arthur Collins - 1812
...edition of the Absalom and Acbuofbil. The memorable verses1 Which satirize him, cannot be forgot. " For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious,...Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812
...edition of the Absalom and Acbitofbcl. The memorable verses, which satiri2e him, cannot be forgot. s " For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious,...Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul. which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816
...false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless,...impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul which, working out it's way, Fretted flie pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of day. A daring pilot in... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816
...Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless,...impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul which, working out it's way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix' d in principles and place, In pnw'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, ЛяЛ o'er- in Гиг m'dt lie lestement of clay. variety of opinions concerning treason, and there... | |
 | 1831
...his (Vitalis) temper, the constant struggle of a gigantic mind with a weak and feeble frame — • A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay'— his eager longing for the liberation of the spirit from the trammels of earthly cares and sufferings,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819
...Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curs'd ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819
...counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfix'd in principle and place ; HUDtBRAS. A fiery soul, 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821
...Achitophel* was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...working out its way, ") Fretted the pigmy body to decay, VAnd o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | 1821
...close designs and crooked councils tit, JSagacions, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix V in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sore to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth... | |
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