...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 the...

...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....

...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 were...

...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 the...

...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 he was a...

...responsibility of his position as a leading statesman, would endeavour to allay the prevalent excitement : — " A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; hut, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his...

...greater life of freedom than ever before, but for this frustration.' " A few hours afterwards the spirit which " Working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay," was enfranchised from its earthly thrall. He died at the age of forty-two....

...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 ; his...

...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 ; his...

...set his character, in several respects, in a new light in the world. They will show that he had no A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his...