 | 1867 - 398 페이지
...physique, as in many other respects, from some of his descendants. According to the poet, he had — " A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." Notwithstanding the hard things that are spoken of this remarkable... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 페이지
...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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 434 페이지
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, imtixM 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.1* Then he puts into the mouth of Achitophel the following description... | |
 | 1981 - 532 페이지
...turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the...to decay; And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. (Extract) If John Dryden had a reader in mind when writing that poem, it was most certainly not the... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 페이지
...turbulent of wit, 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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 페이지
...turbulent of wit: 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... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 페이지
...principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity: Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high 160 He sought the... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 페이지
...turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, 160 He sought the storms;... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 페이지
...turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the...body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 페이지
...portrait of the Earl of Shaftesbury in all his damaged and damaging energy - this corporeal triplet? A fiery Soul, which working out its way,~^ Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: > And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay. J (Works n: 10, lines 156-8) Dryden's triplet animates not only... | |
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A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted... 
