 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 - Página 2901821Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 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 pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." I wish, for many reasons, that I could have spoken of him... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 páginas
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, — A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For close designs and crooked councils fit ; Sagacious,...Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, that working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 páginas
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first, — A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For close designs and crooked councils fit ; Sagacious,...Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul,'lhat working out its way, } Fretted the pigmy body... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 páginas
...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, &c. Arlington House was pulled down by the no less celebrated... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs ami crooked counsels seems to shake the spheres. The unplcaVd, impnticnt of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1847 - 674 páginas
...true, having passed under the writer's THE MILITARY CAREER OF THE CELEBRATED EARL OF PETERBOROUGH. " A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, \nd o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." CHARLES MOHDAUNT, Earl of Peterborough, was one of the most... | |
 | 1847 - 726 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 pigmy body to decay, And o'er-mform'd the tenement of clay.' " We must conclude by some passages from the life of Lord Chancellor... | |
 | 1847 - 610 páginas
...For close designs and crooked councils fit. Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, that working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.''... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...Hecate ? Why is she called triple Hecate f What is meant by her team ? Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. A fiery soul, which working out its way") Fretted the pigmy body to decay L And o'er-informed the tenement of clay; I A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when... | |
 | 1893 - 688 páginas
...meaning to a Czech, and hence it was found necessary to add the vernacular vuz to explain what it meant. A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Dryden. And his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hound«, their father and their... | |
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