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" He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. "
The Westminster Review - Página 324
1902
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Notes and Queries

1874 - 714 páginas
...Absalom and Achitophel, in the portrait of Lord Shaftesbury : — " A fiery soul, which working out ite way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay." JWW SKATING LITERATURE (5th S. ii. 10V.)— There is a thin 4to. pamphlet, 16 pp., not included in...
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The English Journal of Education, Volumen4

1850 - 488 páginas
...was a warrior no less bold than his stalwart opponent Gustavus. In many a case, has The fiery spirit working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. Occasionally the author is so far wrong in his etymologies as to excite distrust in the case of those...
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Alton Locke: Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography

Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 400 páginas
...ill-health were upon him; and his sallow cheek, and ever-working lip, proclaimed too surely — The fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay ; And o'er informed the tenement of clay. I longed to open my heart to him. Instinctively I felt that he...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unplciuiM, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pi^my body to decay, And o'er-inforiu'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd...
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London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and ..., Volumen1

John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 556 páginas
...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 with...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volumen1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volumen1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms...
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 480 páginas
...young, strong and active, but from the life he led, he early showed symptoms of premature old age. " A fiery soul which working out its way, Fretted the...to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay." I wish, for many reasons, that I could have spoken of him more favourably. It is delightful to think...
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Life of Algernon Sidney: With Sketches of Some of His Contemporaries and ...

George Van Santvoord - 1851 - 380 páginas
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixt 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 with the danger when the...
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The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign ..., Volumen14

1851 - 462 páginas
...be said to travel on the broad gauge. They are usually thin and ^lively, and not a few have that " Fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'erinforms the tenement of clay." We do not object, however, to a moderate and graceful rotundity....
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