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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. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer... "
New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ... - Página 1
por Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824
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Notes and Queries

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...
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Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography

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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

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...
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Life of Algernon Sidney: With Sketches of Some of His Contemporaries and ...

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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volumen1

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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volumen1

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...
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Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage

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,...
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

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...
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The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign ..., Volumen14

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....
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The Crafting of Absalom and Achitophel: Dryden’s Pen for a Party

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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