 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...  Waverley Novels: Kenilworth. The pirate - Page 534by Walter Scott - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits to madness near allied." And again— " 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 too nigh thn sands to boast his... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...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 when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...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, when the waves went high lt*> He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...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 when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | Montgomeryshire (Wales) - 1875 - 530 pages
...the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre."1 And have often noted " A daring pilot in extremity : Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storm."3 In the merciless Wars of the Roses, and in the protracted conflict... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1854 - 622 pages
...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 when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, AVould steer too nigh the sands, to boast his... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed its 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 too nigh the sands, to boast his... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...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 too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its 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 too nigh the sands to show his wit.... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay : 10 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 too nigh the sands to show his... | |
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