 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
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 358 pagina’s
...ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. Absolom and Achitophel — Continued Part i. Line 156. A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. Part i. Line 163.. Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 412 pagina’s
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the... | |
 | 1857
...was beating quicker with the mighty events which were passing, was torture to a mind like his : — ' A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed its tenement of clay.' The glorious battle-ground from which he was kept back rendered... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859
...Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleos'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy hody to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high Pleas'd... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 276 pagina’s
...lines are quoted, how truly are insane workings portrayed in the character of "the false Achitopel : " A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform' d the tenements of clay. * • Absolom and Achitopel. This character of Shaftesbury,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862
...curst, For close designs, and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Bestless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased,...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay, A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the dangers when... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 331 pagina’s
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed its tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862
...Dryden's satire, whose character the poet portrayed in those famous lines, — " Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay." Sharing the Whig opinions of his patron, Locke came in also... | |
 | English poets - 1862
...designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; • Restless, unfix' d in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...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 ; Pleased... | |
 | 1862 - 417 pagina’s
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Eestless, 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 to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. . . Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we... | |
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