 | 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...to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. Part i. Line 163.. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...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 waves... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed 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'erinformed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 640 pages
...beating quicker with the mighty events which were passing, was torture to a mind like his : — ' A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed its tenement of clay.' The glorious battle-ground from which he was kept back rendered... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...of wit ; Restless, unfixed 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 informed4 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves... | |
 | John Timbs - Death - 1861 - 314 pages
...are quoted, how truly are insane workings portrayed in the character of "the false Achitopel : " A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenements of clay. * * Absolom and Achitopel. This character of Shaftesbury, (Aehitopel,)... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery sou), 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - Science - 1862 - 528 pages
...ferment their mass of clay, to that elsewhere described by the same great poet : — A fiery soul that working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay, — we have every grade of relation between the two great faculties, which in their mysterious conjunction... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...lines, — " Restless, unfixed 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-informed the tenement of clay." Sharing the Whig opinions of his patron, Locke came in also for... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...DRYDEN's VERSE. Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleasej, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And e'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the... | |
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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... 
