 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
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 páginas
...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 - 640 páginas
...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 - 480 páginas
...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 - 340 páginas
...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 - 346 páginas
...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 - 344 páginas
...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 - 452 páginas
...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 - 626 páginas
...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 - 500 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 páginas
...; 242 SPECIMENS OF DRYDEN's VERSE. Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleasej, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And e'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when... | |
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