 | Henry Roscoe - Law - 1825 - 332 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and 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." (Absalom and Achitophel.) " The discrepancy in the two characters... | |
 | English letters - 1826 - 438 pages
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 | English drama - 1826 - 344 pages
...and vigour that belong to health. But, the excitement over, his frame sunk beneath the effort, — " A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body ^o ducay, And o'er-iufonnM the tenement of clay." Hail ! and farewell ! KT D G. STAGE DIRECTIONS. The... | |
 | 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...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;... | |
 | 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 body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the wave... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent 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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unftYd in principles and place ; ID power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy hody to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high Pleas'd... | |
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He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 
