 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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 页
...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,... | |
 | 1829 - 560 页
...restlessness of his temper, the constant struggle of a gigantic mind with a weak and feeble frame — ' A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay' — -> his eager longing for the liberation of the spirit from the trammels of earthly cares and sufferings,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 页
...character, in several respects, in A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waveswent high He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. a new light in the world. They will show that he had no hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made... | |
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He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 
