| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2452 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Life of the Duke of Alva. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| | Note 1.
A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pigmy-body to decay,
And o’er-inform’d the tenement of clay.
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, part i. line 156. [back] |
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