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" A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay... "
Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography - Page 29
by Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 371 pages
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Electronic journals - 1893 - 688 pages
...to a Czech, and hence it was found necessary to add the vernacular vuz to explain what it meant. A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Dryden. And his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hound«, their father and their...
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Life of Algernon Sidney: With Sketches of Some of His Contemporaries and ...

George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 380 pages
...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...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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...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...
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The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign ..., Volume 14

International law - 1851 - 462 pages
...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....
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Wynville; or, Clubs and coteries, by the author of 'The age of Pitt and Fox'.

Daniel Owen Madden - 1852 - 326 pages
...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 sunken, his...
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Selections from the Poetry of Dryden: Including His Plays and Translations

John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...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...
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Lights and Shadows of Artist Life and Character

James Smith - Art - 1853 - 448 pages
...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. Does the artist, who has...
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The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe, Volume 2

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...to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin ; his eye lively and penetrating. Such...
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The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe: Memoirs of a cavalier ...

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...to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin ; his eye lively and penetrating. Such...
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Alton Locke

Charles Kingsley - 1856 - 328 pages
...were upon him; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely— The fiery sonl which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body...Often, turning round suddenly in the workroom, I caught mm watching me with an expression which seemed to say, " Poor boy, and art thou too one of us ? Hast...
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