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" 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 went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer... "
Waverley Novels: Kenilworth. The pirate - Page 534
by Walter Scott - 1844
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...working out its way, "1 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 went high •/He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, \Would steer too nigh' the sands, to boast...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 9

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...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 went high He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his...
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er-intbrm'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms, but for a calm unfis, too nigh the sands to boast his wit " Absalom...
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Contains the earls to the termination of the seventeenth century

Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 828 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 ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms, but for a calm unfit, teer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." leighton,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...which, working out it's way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity : Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 4

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...which, working out it's way, Fretted flie pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of day. A daring pilot in extremity: Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his...
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The Pirate, Volume 2

Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 334 pages
...which Giles and I can manage as if it were an Admiral's barge full manned ; and Master Triptolemtis Yellowley will tell you how seaman-like I piloted...— but, for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the stuids to shew my wit." "I shewed little wit in entrusting myself to your charge," said Triptolemus;...
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The Pirate, Volume 2

Walter Scott - English fiction - 1822 - 254 pages
...Factor. " Why, to be sure," replied the minstrel, " I am, as glorious John says :— A daring pilotin extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves go high, I seek the storm—but, for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit." " I showed littfe wit...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 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; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his...
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The Table Talker: Or, Brief Essays on Society and Literature, Volume 2

Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 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 ; Pleased with the danger when the waves were high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit....
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