 | Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 546 pages
...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough: — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. Absolom and Achitophel — Continued Part i. Line 156. A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. Part i. Line 163.. Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 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-informed its tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...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 with the danger when... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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 informed the tenement of clay. ***** Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin... | |
 | Cornwall (England : County) - 1862 - 500 pages
...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 ; The statesman we... | |
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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... 
