 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 584 sider
...most undone. 1. [Compare Dryden on Shaftesbury (Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i. lines 156-158) — " A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay."] 2. [The Romans had more than one proverb to this effect ; eg... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 sider
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 sider
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy -body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay; A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves weni. nigh, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 sider
...of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; 155 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... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 sider
...of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; 155 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sider
...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....Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high, 160 He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sider
...disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmv body to decay, And o'er-inforin'd se the book of fate, And there the last assizes keep For those who wake and those who sleep; When rat 160 He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 sider
...working out its way, ) Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay, j A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high, 1 60 He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit.... | |
 | 1911 - 784 sider
...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'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 424 sider
...of wit ; Reckless, unfix' d in principles and place ; In power un pleas' 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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He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 
