| Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1024 páginas
...restless tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement tof clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr Birch's 'Lives,' was thin... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 452 páginas
...restless tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the earl of Peterborough : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives> was thin... | |
| 1840 - 734 páginas
...the common standard of humanity to look at him, or differ in opinion in the slightest degree. His was A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. He excelled (in his own estimation) in long stories, which he told with an extraordinary minuteness... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 448 páginas
...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the earl of Peterborough : A Aery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives> was thin... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd, in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of rose. Hail, bounteous May ! that dost o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the daugerwhen the waves... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 698 páginas
...tenant | within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterj borough : kind of dwelling to make ; whether I should make me a cave in the dc'cay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr Birch's 'Lives,'... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1844 - 484 páginas
...susceptible, with greater subtilty and intensity of feeling. Dryden's lines — " A fiery soul that working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay" — do not exactly answer to Raffaelle's character, which is mild and thoughtful rather than fiery... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 628 páginas
...young, strong and active, but from the life he led, he early showed symptoms of premature old age. *' A fiery soul which working out its way, Fretted the...to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." I wish, for many reasons, that I could have spoken of him His demore favourably. It is delightful to... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 432 páginas
...are susceptible, with greater subtilty and intensity of feeling. Dryden's lines, " A fiery soul that working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay — " do not exactly answer to Raphael's character, which is mild and thoughtful rather than fiery... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed5 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremety ; Pleased with the danger when the... | |
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