 | English poetry - 1714 - 528 pages
...Wit : 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... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1773 - 260 pages
...Reftlefs, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace : A fiery foul, 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...Rcftltfs, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace. A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'cr-inform'd the tenement of clav. Adw Youth, beauty, graceful aftion, K But common int'rcft always... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1796 - 418 pages
...Reftlefs, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace ; A fiery foul, which, working out 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 debaters that ever fat in... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1796 - 430 pages
...Reftlefs, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace ; A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. Abfalom and Acbitopbel. Lord Shaftefbury was, perhaps, one of the ableft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...Refllefs, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of dif^racc : A fiery foul, 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; Plcas'd wit!i the dancer when the... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...turbulent of wit ; 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... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 610 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 these separate faculties, which in their mysterious conjunction... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...turbulent of wit ; 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... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 560 pages
...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 ;... | |
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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... 
