 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...turbulent of wit. Bestless, 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 dangers when... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1862 - 370 pages
...ill-health were upon him ; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely — The fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay ; And o'er informed the tenement of clay. I longed to open my heart to him. Instinctively I felt that... | |
 | William Benton Clulow - 1863 - 414 pages
...thing.* A similar fancy is introduced by Dryden, in his celebrated description of Lord Shaftesbury : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.f Physiology, whose highest praise is scarcely that of being... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...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 soulevé qui écoute,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...Giaour. [Compare these lines with the Song of Deborah, JUDGES, Chap. V. Verses 28—80.] DECA Y. — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. DRTDEN. — Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I. Line 158. Those... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 Forsyth - 1864 - 350 pages
...open air. Can we then wonder at the consequences which followed ? and that he soon suffered from " His fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay." He was obliged for a time to retire from the Forum and the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Whate'er he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. Part i. Line 27. 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 156. Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 pages
...the battered body could not keep pace any longer with the keen, undaunted, untiring spirit, — The fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. So the campaign has ended, and the veteran, after his hard... | |
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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... 
