...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits tc madness near allied." And again — 'A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger...storms ; but for a calm unfit. Would steer too nigh the sands to boait bis wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think. explain this discrepancy. The...

...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 body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas' d with the danger when the...

...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...

...illhealth 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...

...Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high, He sought the 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...

...unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which worketh out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And...storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to Ijoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their...

...respects, in a new light in the world. They will show that he had no A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought...storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, hand in the Duchess of Orleans's...

...What real praise appears incidentally, and subservient to blame, in the character of Shaftesbury — A daring pilot in extremity : Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms. And again, at the close of the same passage, there is direct testimony to worth — Yet fame deserved...

...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough: — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin...

...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough: — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin...