 | 1714 - 528 Seiten
...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 - 1773 - 260 Seiten
...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 - 1791 - 510 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1793 - 806 Seiten
...unplca.-'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; [high, Pleas'd with the danger when the waves west He fought the norms; but, for a calm unfit, Would... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 Seiten
...unptea^'d, impatient of difgrace : A ii. i ••• 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; Plcaf'd with the danger when the wavei went He fought the ftorrm; but, for a calm unfit, W. uld fleer... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 430 Seiten
...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 debaters that ever fat in... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 418 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1801 - 416 Seiten
...councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unrtx'd in principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which,...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
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He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 
