| English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achithophel was first, i54 A name to all succeeding agescurs'd; For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unrtx'd in principles and place, In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul,... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, imfiv'd hi 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-infornTd tbe tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when... | |
| Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 468 pages
...remembered. " A Letter from Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, Restless, unfixt 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... | |
| Daniel Defoe, George Carleton - Europe - 1808 - 516 pages
...restless 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... | |
| John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In pow'r uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery sonl, which, working out its way, 1 Fretted the pigmy... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...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 the pigmy-body to decay, > And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; } A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...couusclt fit; Sagacious, hold, and turbulent of nit ; Restless, unfix' d in principles and place; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, ) Fretted (he pigmy body to-decay, I And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. \ A daring pilot in extremity ;... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding aces curst: For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless,...unfix'd in principles and place; In power unpleas'd, impotent of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, - Fretted the pigmy-body to decay,... | |
| Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...edition of the Absalom and Acbitofbcl. The memorable verses, which satiri2e him, cannot be forgot. s " For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious,...principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul. which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er-intbrm'd... | |
| Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 828 pages
...edition of the Absalom and Acbuofbil. The memorable verses1 Which satirize him, cannot be forgot. " For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious,...principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient in disgrace; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay ; And o'er-inform'd... | |
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