 | 1714 - 528 oldal
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1773 - 260 oldal
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 oldal
...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... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 430 oldal
...Reftlefs, 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'er inform'd the tenement of clay. Abfalom and Acbitopbel. Lord Shaftefbury was, perhaps, one of the... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 418 oldal
...Reftlefs, 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'er, informed the tenement of clay. Abfalem and Aclitofbtl. Lord Shaftefbury was, perhaps, one of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 oldal
...Refllefs, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of dif^racc : 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; Plcas'd wit!i the dancer when the... | |
 | 1801 - 416 oldal
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Kestless, unrtx'd 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 oVi'-iiiform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; r& Pleas'd with the danger, when... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 oldal
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bunds ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 oldal
...extraordinary personage. Anecd. vol.vp 54. J . 3 [Dryden characterizes him in his well-known satire; " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixt in principles and place ; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace. in him to brag that Cromwell... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 468 oldal
...of Shaftesbury in Hudibras, Part iii. Canto 2. Dryden characterizes him in his well-known satire: " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; AN T OXY AN n L. K v C oor B n. , erf' in him to brag that Cromwell would have made him king: the... | |
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Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A... 
