 | 1840 - 734 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...Died, 1700.] CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY. FROM "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL." OP these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For...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 Seiten
...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,'... | |
 | 1847 - 640 Seiten
...borne out by terseness of example, illustration, proof or epigram. " Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all 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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...his metre." i CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY UNDER THE NAME OF ACHITOPHEL." OF these3 the false Achitophel4 was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst ; For...out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed5 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremety ; Pleased with the danger when the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 628 Seiten
...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 pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay." I wish, for many reasons, that I could have spoken of him His... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 630 Seiten
...statesman, is one of Bridgeman the most extraordinary characters in English history : BURY**™" " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A daring pilot in extremity,... | |
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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... 
