| 1714 - 528 sider
...Reftlcfs, unfixt in Principles and Place; In Pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of Difgrace : A firy Soul, which, working out its Way, > Fretted the Pigmy Body to Decay, \ And o'erinforrn'd the Tenement of Clay. J A daring Pilot in Extremity ; Pleas'd with the Danger, when the... | |
| William Seward - 1796 - 418 sider
...Hands more clean; Unbrib'd, unfgught, the wretched to redreft, Swift of difpatch, and eafy of accefs. Yet in another place he calls him, For clofe defigns...its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er, informed the tenement of clay. Abfalem and Aclitofbtl. Lord Shaftefbury was, perhaps, one of the ableft... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 sider
...turbulent of wit ; Refllefs, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of dif^racc : And b o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Plcas'd wit!i the dancer when the... | |
| 1801 - 416 sider
...Kestless, unrtx'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 oVi'-iiiform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; r& Pleas'd with the danger, when... | |
| 1857 - 610 sider
...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 these separate faculties,... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 382 sider
...Restless, imfiv'd hi 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-infornTd tbe tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when the... | |
| 1808 - 560 sider
...tenant within. The famous lines ot" Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough : " ' A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, * And o'er inform'd the tensmenl of clay.' " His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin ; kis eye lively... | |
| Daniel Defoe, George Carleton - 1808 - 516 sider
...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,... | |
| Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 828 sider
...Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in 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... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 sider
...place; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working out its way,-) Fn-tted 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 waves ran high He sought the storms,... | |
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