 | William Franklin Gore Shanks - History - 1866 - 368 pages
...author had such a genius or madman as Sherman in his mind when he described one of his characters as "A fiery soul, which, working out its way, * Fretted the pigmy body to decay." The peculiar formation of Sherman's head shows his great development of brain. His- forehead is broad,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 434 pages
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, imtixM 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.1* Then he puts into the mouth of Achitophel the following description... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 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... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 438 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." Then he puts into the mouth of Achitophel the following description... | |
 | 1867 - 398 pages
...physique, as in many other respects, from some of his descendants. According to the poet, he had — " A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." Notwithstanding the hard things that are spoken of this remarkable... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 782 pages
...wit ; Kesiless, unfix 'd in principles and place ; In power unplcas'd, impatient of disgrace : A ncry soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform d the tenement of clay." Then he puts into the mouth of Achitophel the following description... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pages
...ttung.-r 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-inlormcd the tencment of clay.J Physinlogv, whose highest praise is scarcely thnt of being... | |
 | Books - 1882 - 462 pages
...wasgrandson of the celebrated and unfortunate Earl, who is the Ahitophel of Dryden's immortal satire — The fiery soul which, working out its way. Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay, and who was the sire of that son, the second Earl, so cruelly... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...Whate'er he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. part \. 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 \. Line 156. Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
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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... 
