 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1024 pages
...restless tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement tof clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr Birch's 'Lives,' was thin... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 452 pages
...restless tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the earl of Peterborough : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives> was thin... | |
 | 1840 - 734 pages
...the common standard of humanity to look at him, or differ in opinion in the slightest degree. His was A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. He excelled (in his own estimation) in long stories, which he told with an extraordinary minuteness... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 448 pages
...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the earl of Peterborough : A Aery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives> was thin... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...JOHN DRYDEN. [Born. 1631. Died, 1700.] CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." OP these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd, in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 698 pages
...tenant | within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterj borough : kind of dwelling to make ; whether I should make me a cave in the dc'cay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr Birch's 'Lives,'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...his verse it would be vain to eulogise. [Character of Shaftcsbury.] [From ' Absalom and Achitophel.'] same writer has pointed out the entircness of Browne...occasion to wander ; for whatever happens to be his unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which,... | |
 | 1847 - 640 pages
...abuse, or stirring assertions borne out by terseness of example, illustration, proof or epigram. " Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to...succeeding ages curs>t ; For close designs and crooked councils fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 748 pages
...delicate stomach, than those of Ritt-master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of Drumthwacket. - ' -, --•î|:i For close designs and crooked counsels fit. Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, I; r .rl, -.. мних ,l in principle and place, In power unpleased, impatient in disgrace. ADSALOM... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 pages
...madhouse, or, at best, succeed to the delusions, without the cheerful intervals, of Cowper. CHAPTER XV. " Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit, Restless — unfixed in principles and place." — DRYDEN. " Whoever acquires a very great number of ideas interesting to the society in which he... | |
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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... 
