 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd 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-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd, impatient of disgrace : A where : Warn'd by the sylph, oh, pious maid, beware! This to disclose is all inform' d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...turbulent of wit. Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, 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." IT is to the first Earl of Shaftesbury, Dryden's Achitophel, and... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...turbulent of wit; Restless, unfiVd 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-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; [high, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | Periodicals - 1829 - 560 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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... | |
 | 576 pages
...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...to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the wave went high, He sought the ttorm ;... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 492 pages
...imagination fought their fight within him, and his destruction was the result. His was " The fiery soul, that working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay ! " That he had estimable and endearing qualities as a man, may be gathered from the sincere friendship... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 530 pages
...imagination fought their fight within him, and his destruction was the result. His was " The fiery soul, that working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay ! " That he had estimable and endearing qualities as a man, may be gathered from the sincere friendship... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
