 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 474 pages
...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, VAnd o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | 1821 - 778 pages
...JSagacions, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix V in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sore to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unlix'd in principle 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 iuform'd the tenement of clay, A daring pilot in1 extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...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-iriform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 496 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit : Restless, unlix'd in principle 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,... | |
 | 1902 - 742 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power impleased, impatient of disgrace, A fiery soul, which, working...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay." IT is to the first Earl of Shaftesbury, Dryden's Achitophel, and one of Macaulay's Iwtes no-ires, "... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unplcae'd, Pd /➶հX o'er inform' d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfiVd 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; [high, Pleased with the danger, when... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1825 - 332 pages
...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." (Absalom and Achitophel.) " The discrepancy in the two characters... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...pigmy body to deeay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of elay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd ()n daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange ealm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd,... | |
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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... 
