 | 1714 - 528 pages
...Wit : 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... | |
 | Joseph Grove - 1764 - 506 pages
...working out its way, -j Fretted the pigmy-body to decay; f. And o'er inform'd the tenement cf clay. i 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 fleer too nigh the fands, to boaft his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 318 pages
...impatient of difgrace : A fie;^" . which working out its way, FrettiS 'u* pigmy-body to decay, And o\.e inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He fought the ftorm.s ; but for a calm unfit Would fteer too nigh the fands to boaft his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1773 - 260 pages
...Reftlefs, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 336 pages
...difgrace : 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 fleer too nigh the fands to boaft his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...working out its way, 1 Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, f 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 fought the ftorms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would fteer too nigh the fands to boaft his... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...Rcftltfs, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace. A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'cr-inform'd the tenement of clav. Adw Youth, beauty, graceful aftion, K But common int'rcft always... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...unplca.-'d, impatient of difgrace: 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; [high, Pleas'd with the danger when the waves west He fought the norms; but, for a calm unfit, Would... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 pages
...unptea^'d, impatient of difgrace : A ii. i ••• 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; Plcaf'd with the danger when the wavei went He fought the ftorrm; but, for a calm unfit, W. uld fleer... | |
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He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 
