 | English poetry - 1714 - 528 pages
...Reftlcfs, unfixt in Principles and Place; In Pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of Difgrace : A firy Soul, which, working out its Way, > Fretted the Pigmy Body to Decay, \ And o'erinforrn'd the Tenement of Clay. J A daring Pilot in Extremity ; Pleas'd with the Danger, when the... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 448 pages
...unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace : VOL. I, M A fiery foul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'dwith the danger when the waves went high, He fought the ftorms ; but for a calm unfit, Would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace i A fiery foul, which, working Out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the.danger when the waves went high, He fought the ftorms; but, for a calm unfit, Would fteer too nigh... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...dilgracc : A ticry foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'cr-inform'd wenthigh, He fought the ftorms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would ftcer too nigh the Hinds to boaft his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...turbulent of wit ; Refllefs, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of dif^racc : A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted...the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Plcas'd wit!i the dancer when the waves went high, He fought the ftorms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would... | |
 | William Cliffton - 1800 - 156 pages
...ill-sorted travrllcrs, they very early parted — parted forever. The active vigour of his genius " Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." He struggled long against the insidious approaches of a fatal hectic, and while he sought by various... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...Kestless, unrtx'd in principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And oVi'-iiiform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; r& Pleas'd with the danger, when... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...Restless, imfiv'd hi principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-infornTd tbe tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when the... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 560 pages
...tenant within. The famous lines ot" Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough : " ' A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, * And o'er inform'd the tensmenl of clay.' " His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...and place, In pow'r uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery sonl, which, working out its way, 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms... | |
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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... 
