 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...accurate notion of Shaftesbury 's bodily proportions is conveyed by Dryden's nervous couplet : — ' A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.' He took after his mother and maternal grandfather in these... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 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-infonned the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...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 tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 586 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... | |
 | W. Thomas - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 248 pages
...While glancing at the ill health of his body, Dryden elaborates on the wit and ambition of his mind: A fiery Soul, which working out its way, Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay. A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleas 'd with the Danger, when... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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... | |
 | English language - 1981 - 532 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. (Extract) If John Dryden had a reader in mind when writing... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 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... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - History - 1998 - 222 pages
...chaotic energy,"turbulent of wit ... Restless, unfixed in principles and place," "for calm unfit," A fiery soul, which, working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. [156-158]6" As order begets order, so also Achitophel, the... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 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... | |
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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... 
