 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 420 pages
...D'Alva was coming: and no wonder if children were scared with him of whom their fathers were afraid. He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager...of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. He had this humour, that he neglected the good counsel of others, especially if given him before he... | |
 | 1851 - 554 pages
...— The passage in Absalom and Achitophel is taken from 1 uller's Profane State, speaking of Alva: " He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager...clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through itj" and from Carew, p. 71., " The purest soul that ere was sent Into a clayey teueuieut." с. в.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 pages
...fragile body. A curious parallel to these famous lines occurs in Fuller's Profane State : ' He was of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting...his body, desired to fret a passage through it.' The sketch of Shaftesbury's son is not equally just ; for, although a man of the meanest mental capacity,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 302 pages
...predisposed to such impressions ; and by operating with so occurs in Fuller's Profane State : " He was of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting...of his body, desired to fret a passage through it." — Belt's Annotated Edition of Dryderit Poetical Works. * Medical Aspects of the Human Mind. much... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...triplet on Shaftesbury's fiery soul fretting his pigmy body and o'erinforming the tenement of clay. ' He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clay of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.' (Fuller's Profane State.) ' The purest soul... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...triplet on Shaftesbury's fiery soul fretting his pigmy body and o'erinforming the tenement of clay. ' He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clay of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.' (Fuller's Profane State.) I. 154. principle... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.2 Part i. Line 163. , 1 lie was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager...of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. — Fuller, Holy and Profane State. Life of Duhe d'Alva. 2 Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. I, Line 226.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...triplet on Shaftesbury's fiery soul fretting his pigmy body and o'erinforming the tenement of clay. • He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clay of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.' (Fuller's Profane State.) ' The purest soul... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...triplet on Shaftesbury's fiery soul fretting his pigmy body and o'erinforming the tenement of clay. * He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clay of his body, desired to fret a passage through it." (Fuller's Profane State.) ' The purest soul... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Often the cockloft is empty, in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.1 Andronicus, ad fin. \. He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager...of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. LifeofDuked'Alva. HENRY VAUGHAN. 1621-1695. I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth... | |
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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clay of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. 
