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... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Strana 2901821Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 str.
...Achitophel was first ; Л name to all succeeding ogee curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit J , Sagacious, bold, and 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 str.
...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... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 400 str.
...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... | |
| George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 380 str.
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit ; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixt in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...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... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 str.
...Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit; 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... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 str.
...Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit; 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... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 480 str.
...of the most extraordinary characters in English history : u For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleaVd impatient of disgrace : A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves... | |
| 1851 - 462 str.
...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.... | |
| John Dryden - 1852 - 378 str.
...Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curs'd: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy... | |
| Daniel Owen Madden - 1852 - 326 str.
...will. In short, I thought, on looking at the young nobleman, of Dryden's lines on Shaftesbury : — " A fiery soul which working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay." Lord John Rowland seemed then in very poor health, his cheeks... | |
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