 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 Seiten
...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 ; Pleas'd... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1819 - 136 Seiten
...succeeding ages curst. For close designs and crooked councils fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. 4. THE HEROINE ; or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader. By E. Stannard Barrett, Esq. Author of "... | |
 | 1821 - 778 Seiten
...close designs and crooked councils tit, JSagacions, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix V in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sore to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 Seiten
...close designs, and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...fiery soul, which, working out its way, ") Fretted the pigmy body to decay, VAnd o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased... | |
 | 1821 - 800 Seiten
...For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient...fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 Seiten
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-iriform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 Seiten
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unlix'd in principle 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 iuform'd the tenement of clay, A daring pilot in1 extremity ; Pleas'd... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfiVd in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...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, Pleased... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd, Pd /➶հX pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform' d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd... | |
 | 1902 - 742 Seiten
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, 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." IT is to the first Earl of Shaftesbury,... | |
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Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 
