 | Charles Kingsley - 1856 - 328 pages
...were upon him; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely— The fiery sonl which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er informed the tenement of clay. I longed to open my heart to him. Instinctively I felt that he was a kindred spirit. Often, turning... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...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. 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
...was 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
...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 informed4 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves... | |
 | John Timbs - Death - 1861 - 340 pages
...lines 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, (Achitopel,)... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1862 - 370 pages
...ill-health were upon him ; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely — The fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the...to decay ; And o'er informed the tenement of clay. I longed to open my heart to him. Instinctively I felt that he was a kindred spirit. Often, turning... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
