| Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 400 páginas
...ill-health were upon him; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely — The fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay ; And o'er informed the tenement of clay. I longed to open my heart to him. Instinctively I felt that... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 480 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-informed the tenement of clay." I wish, for many reasons, that I could have spoken of him... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace : 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 ; Pleas'd with the danger, when... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace : 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 ; Pleas'd with the danger, when... | |
| George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 380 páginas
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixt 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 informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when... | |
| 1851 - 462 páginas
...be said to travel on the broad gauge. They are usually thin and ^lively, and not a few have that " Fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'erinforms the tenement of clay." We do not object, however, to a moderate and graceful rotundity.... | |
| John Dryden - 1852 - 378 páginas
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r 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. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas' d with the danger when... | |
| Daniel Owen Madden - 1852 - 326 páginas
...will. In short, I thought, on looking at the young nobleman, of Dryden's lines on Shaftesbury : — " A fiery soul which working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay." Lord John Rowland seemed then in very poor health, his cheeks... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1852 - 390 páginas
...illhealth were upon him ; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely — The fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay ; And o'er informed the tenement of clay. I longed to open my heart to him. Instinctively I felt that... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 550 páginas
...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... | |
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