 | English poetry - 1714 - 528 pages
...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 Waves went high, He fought the Storm ; but, for a Calm unfit, Would fteer too nigh the Sands, to boaft his... | |
 | Joseph Grove - 1764 - 506 pages
...working out its way, -j Fretted the pigmy-body to decay; f. And o'er inform'd the tenement cf clay. i A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He fought the ftorms: but for a calm unfit, Would fleer too nigh the fands, to boaft his... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 318 pages
...which working out its way, FrettiS 'u* pigmy-body to decay, And o\.e inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He fought the ftorm.s ; but for a calm unfit Would fteer too nigh the fands to boaft his... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1773 - 260 pages
...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 waves went high, He fought the florm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would fteer too nigh the fands, to boaft his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 664 pages
...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 waves went high, He fought the ftorms; but, for a calm unfit, Would fteer too nigh the fands to boaft his... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'cr-inform'd the tenement of clay. gton" K7- wenthigh, He fought the ftorms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would ftcer too nigh the Hinds to boaft his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...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 - English literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...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 - English literature - 1806 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...throne, Were rais'd in power and public office high ; Strong bands, if bands ungrateful men could tie. For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious,...wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place, In pow'r uupleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery sonl, which, working out its way, 1 Fretted the pigmy... | |
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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... 
