 | Edwin Watts Chubb - English literature - 1914 - 488 pages
...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, Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace; 155 nd lilies white; 10 * fairy king; I write of hell; I sing (and ever shall) O o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - Great Britain - 1920 - 408 pages
...Turbulent of wit : 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'r inform' d the Tenement of Clay. J A daring Pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the Danger, when the... | |
 | Cyril Edward Robinson - Great Britain - 1928 - 966 pages
...succeeding ages curst. F.or close Designs, and crooked Counsels fit; Sagacious, Bold and Turbulent of wit. A fiery Soul, which working out its way, Fretted the Pigmy-Body to decay. Great Wits are sure to Madness near alii 'd ; And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide: Else why... | |
 | Edward Pols - Philosophy - 1998 - 188 pages
...takes to be disreputable, but that does not detract from the appositeness of the expression he uses: A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the Pigmy-Body to decay; And o'r informed the Tenement of clay. An informing form, or essence, has some of die marks of a Platonic... | |
 | Charles Richmond, Paul Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 232 pages
...1828), ii.25-6. 26 John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681-2). Dryden's reference to Achitophel's 'fiery Soul, which working out its way / Fretted the Pigmy-Body to decay' has its relevance to the diagnosis of Disraeli's illness. Cf. below, pp. 87-8. 27 Isaac D'Israeli,... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - History - 2002 - 380 pages
...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 the danger when the waves... | |
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He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 
