 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...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-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 Seiten
...ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; 16 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... | |
 | 1862 - 500 Seiten
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Eestless, 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. . . Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 Seiten
...; 242 SPECIMENS OF DRYDEN's VERSE. Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleasej, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And e'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 356 Seiten
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In power unplcascd, 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 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. LITT. ANGL. n—43 gez à ce peuple... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 Seiten
...succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power...fiery soul which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay : A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 Seiten
...sxicceeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place ; In power...fiery 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 ; Pleased... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 Seiten
...remarkable instance. Having dined at Lord Clarendon's with Lord Southampton, liu said, Restless, unfix'd es ! How far I may be allowed to speak my opinion...but I am sure a dispute of this nature caused misc pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 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-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
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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. 
