 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 Seiten
...seeri aided for many years after leaving Oxford in »f his patron and friend, Lord Shaftesbury, the1 Achitophel of Dryden's satire, whose character the...fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.1 Sharing the Whig opinions of his patron,... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 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, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 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 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 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 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 404 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 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 Seiten
...curst; For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Eestless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased,...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 with... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 Seiten
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit— Bestless, unfixed in principles and place, In power nnpleased, 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 with... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 Seiten
...succeeding ages cTirst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; 155 A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the... | |
 | 1877 - 798 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-iuformed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with... | |
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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. 
