 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 - Page 2901821Full view - About this book
 | Charles Kingsley - 1852 - 390 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 342 pages
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first ; iw 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 : IB private, eloquent, daring in public, full of resources in both... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - English fiction - 1854 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 324 pages
...close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which worketh out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 546 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...Achitophel was first ; 150 A name to all succeeding ages cursed : For close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, - T \, \y Fretted the pigmy body to decay, ^ ** And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot... | |
 | Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...as before, Proud to be useful, scorning to be more. Moore. 4 For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. Dryden. 5 You are infirm of feeling as of purpose, blown About by every breath, shook... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...Achitophel was first : A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...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 danger when the... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...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 danger when the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. Absolom and Achitophel — Continued Part i. Line 156. A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. Part i. Line 163.. Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
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