 | 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...restlessness of his temper, the constant struggle of a gigantic mind with a weak and feeble frame — ' A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay' — -> his eager longing for the liberation of the spirit from the trammels of earthly cares and sufferings,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 1022
...people trust, Well may the baser brass contract a rust. [From Absalom and Achitophel.] THE WIT. A FIBBY soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy...storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...character, in several respects, in A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waveswent high He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. a new light in the world. They will show that he had no hand in the Duchess... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 576
...wit, lit -tit'", unfixed in principles and place, In pow'r iinpleau'd, impatient of disgrace ; A 6ery 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 wave... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...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 to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high Pleas* cl with the danger,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...Sagacious, hold, and turhulent of wit ; Restless, unftYd in principles and place ; ID power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy hody to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high Pleas'd... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the 'great wits to madness near allied.' And again— Pleased with the danger when the waves went high,...Would steer too nigh the sauds to boast his wit.'* 'A daring pilot in extremity, The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy.... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imiix'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. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the... | |
 | 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...disgrace ; A fiery soul, 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...the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too rrigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless — unfix'd 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-inform'd 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. 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... 
