 | 1893 - 688 страници
...meaning to a Czech, and hence it was found necessary to add the vernacular vuz to explain what it meant. A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Dryden. And his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hound«, their father and their... | |
 | 1874 - 714 страници
...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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 556 страници
...Shaftesbury, the turbulent statesman of the reign of Charles the Second, and the " Achitophel " of Dryden's poem : — For close designs, and crooked counsels...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... | |
 | 1850 - 488 страници
...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... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1850 - 400 страници
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 страници
...Abmlom and AchitopheL*] Of these the false Achitophel was first ; A name to all succeeding ages curst : ihine* In his well turned and true filed lines : In each of which he seems to shake a lance, unfix'd in principles and place; In power unplciuiM, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 страници
...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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 страници
...ungrateful men could tie. Of these the false Achitophel was first: A name to all succeeding ages cursed. For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 1996 - 332 страници
...immortalized in all his demonic phosphoresecence by John Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel as a man For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold and turbulent of wit. Using Charles IFs eldest bastard son, the glamorous Duke of Monmouth, as a popular figurehead, Shaftesbury... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - 1998 - 222 страници
...chaotic energy,"turbulent of wit ... Restless, unfixed in principles and place," "for calm unfit," A fiery soul, which, working out its way Fretted the...body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. [156-158]6" As order begets order, so also Achitophel, the center of chaos, can produce only chaos,... | |
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Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed ; 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... 
