 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2901821Full view - About this book
 | W. Thomas - 1978 - 248 pages
...While glancing at the ill health of his body, Dryden elaborates on the wit and ambition of his mind: A fiery Soul, which working out its way, Fretted the Pigmy Body to decay: And o'r inform'd the Tenement of Clay. A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleas 'd with the Danger, when... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...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... | |
 | 1981 - 532 pages
...For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. (Extract) If John Dryden had a reader in mind when writing... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 pages
...For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1995 - 300 pages
...Ritt-master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. Chapter jTour For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In pow'r unpleased, impatient in disgrace. Absalom andAchitophel THE VILLAGE of Inverara, now a neat county... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 pages
...chaotic energy,"turbulent of wit ... Restless, unfixed in principles and place," "for calm unfit," A fiery soul, which, working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. [156-158]6" As order begets order, so also Achitophel, the... | |
 | James Noggle - 2001 - 288 pages
...a line of self-contradicting figures in post-Restoration literature, including Dryden's Achitophel, "Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, / Restless, unfix'd in principles and place" (153-4). Wharton, similarly, is 'A Fool, with more of Wit than half mankind, / Too quick for Thought,... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - 380 pages
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...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... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pages
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...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:... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient...working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions... | |
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