 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...  A manual of English literature - Σελίδα 253των Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 423 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1826 - 344 σελίδες
...and vigour that belong to health. But, the excitement over, his frame sunk beneath the effort, — " A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body ^o ducay, And o'er-iufonnM the tenement of clay." Hail ! and farewell ! KT D G. STAGE DIRECTIONS. The... | |
 | 1829 - 560 σελίδες
...restlessness of his temper, the constant struggle of a gigantic mind with a weak and feeble frame — ' A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay' — -> his eager longing for the liberation of the spirit from the trammels of earthly cares and sufferings,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 σελίδες
...people trust, Well may the baser brass contract a rust. [From Absalom and Achitophel.] THE WIT. A FIBBY 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... | |
 | 576 σελίδες
...wit, lit -tit'", unfixed in principles and place, In pow'r iinpleau'd, impatient of disgrace ; A 6ery 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 wave... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 σελίδες
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, 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. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high Pleas* cl with the danger,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 σελίδες
...Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unftYd in principles and place ; ID power unpleas'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... | |
 | 1839 - 466 σελίδες
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'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. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 σελίδες
...close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd in principles and place. In power unpleased, impatient...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 danger when the... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 σελίδες
...close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...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 danger when the... | |
 | James Bennett - 1840 - 494 σελίδες
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; " Restless, 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." It is however universally admitted, that this nobleman executed the important duties of lord chancellor... | |
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