| 1893 - 688 páginas
...meaning to a Czech, and hence it was found necessary to add the vernacular vuz to explain what it meant. A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Dryden. And his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hound«, their father and their... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 400 páginas
...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 he... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unplciuiM, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pi^my body to decay, And o'er-inforiu'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd... | |
| George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 380 páginas
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixt in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...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 the... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power uupleas'd, 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 ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power uupleas'd, 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 ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1851 - 360 páginas
...still life, we think this much better than being never roused at all. We like " The fiery soul that, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." Mr. Kean has passion and energy enough to afford to lend it to the circumstances in which he is placed,... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 480 páginas
...young, strong and active, but from the life he led, he early showed symptoms of premature old age. " A fiery soul which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay." I wish, for many reasons, that I could have spoken of him more... | |
| 1851 - 462 páginas
...be said to travel on the broad gauge. They are usually thin and ^lively, and not a few have that " Fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'erinforms the tenement of clay." We do not object, however, to a moderate and graceful rotundity.... | |
| W. Thomas - 1978 - 248 páginas
...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 the... | |
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