 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 2901821Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 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...disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity:... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 114 pagina’s
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 | M. Wynn Thomas - 2002 - 124 pagina’s
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 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 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 the tenement of clay Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 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 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 pagina’s
...portrait of the Earl of Shaftesbury in all his damaged and damaging energy - this corporeal triplet? A fiery Soul, which working out its way,~^ Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: > And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay. J (Works n: 10, lines 156-8) Dryden's triplet animates not... | |
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