 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 sidor
...which worketh 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...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to Ijoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 342 sidor
...respects, in a new light in the world. They will show that he had no A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made at Dover... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 sidor
...What real praise appears incidentally, and subservient to blame, in the character of Shaftesbury — A daring pilot in extremity : Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms. And again, at the close of the same passage, there is direct testimony to worth — Yet fame deserved... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 sidor
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; <* r Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, 160 He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great-wits ate-sure-to madness. .pear allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; {Else why... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 sidor
...striking features. Ahiihophel is one of the " great wits tc ma^ :.«ss near allied." And again— 14 A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...of Hudibras appeared in 1678, when the character of Shafte c bury had as yet but imperfectly developed itself. He had, indeed, been a traitor to every... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 528 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...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." Or, in the... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 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...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." Or, in the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 sidor
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed4 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 wits5 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 sidor
...o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went 1 He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wi Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 sidor
...striking features. Ahilhophel is one of the " great wits lo ша<! :i;ss near allied." And again — " A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought Ihe storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer loo nigh Um »anda lo boasl uU wit."* The dates of the... | |
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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... 
