 | English poets - 1862 - 626 sidor
...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,...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 sidor
...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...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sidor
...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,...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - 950 sidor
...Atlantic by air— Manchester Guardian) Daring heightens the implication of fearlessness <a during pilot in extremity, pleased with the danger, when the waves went high — Dryden) Daredevil implies ostentation in daring and is often specifically applied to adversary... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1902 - 394 sidor
...again,' said the Factor. ' Why, to be sure,' replied the minstrel, ' I am, as glorious John says, — " A daring pilot in 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."... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 sidor
...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,...Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else, why should... | |
 | William L. Fox - 1997 - 606 sidor
...which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-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 . . . John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel" A little past five in the morning on April 18, 1906, an... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 sidor
...Fretted the pigmy body to decay. .-\/).Ч(|/<шт íiml Ai'liítí>i>ln'l ( l 68 1 ) pt. 1,1. 150 1 A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger,...waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unlit. .Mvufuni imil At'ltilophel ( 1 68 1 1 pt. i, I. i 59 2 Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - 380 sidor
...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...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit . . . In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolved to ruin or to rule the State. He was determined... | |
 | Susan J. Owen - 2002 - 210 sidor
...and Achitophel, where Whig leader Shaftesbury is described as: A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the Danger, when the Waves went high He sought...Steer too nigh the Sands, to boast his Wit.' ' The republican Senator Priuli is an unfit father, and also unfit to steer the ship of state. As a father... | |
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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... 
