"A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay."

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PoetryWorks by John Dryden
Original Language: English

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:Thomas Fuller, Holy and Profane State (Life of Duke d'Alva): "He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it."