 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 Seiten
...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." Sharing the Whig opinions of his patron, Locke came in also for... | |
 | 1862 - 500 Seiten
...Eestless, 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. . . Yet fame deserv'd no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...[Compare these lines with the Song of Deborah, JUDGES, Chap. V. Verses 28—80.] DECA Y. — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. DRTDEN. — Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I. Line 158. Those domes... | |
 | William Benton Clulow - 1863 - 414 Seiten
...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-informed the tenement of clay.f Physiology, whose highest praise is scarcely that of being among... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 Seiten
...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. LITT. ANGL. n—43 gez à ce peuple soulevé qui écoute, à ces... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 Seiten
...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 its tenement of clay : A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1864 - 350 Seiten
...we then wonder at the consequences which followed ? and that he soon suffered from " His fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay." He was obliged for a time to retire from the Forum and the Courts,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. Part i. 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 i. Line 156. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1865 - 398 Seiten
...body could not keep pace any longer with the keen, undaunted, untiring spirit, — The fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. So the campaign has ended, and the veteran, after his hard work,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 Seiten
...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 the... | |
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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... 
