 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
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 88 pages
...eccentric courses and dangerous experiments in legislation. It was not of such as he that Dryden wrote — "A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storm, but for a calm unfit Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 92 pages
...courses and dangerous experiments in legislation. It was not of such as he that Dryden wrote — " A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storm, but for a culm unfit Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1871 - 502 pages
...have found in Zetland." " Well, Fowd," continued Halcro, " I undertook to carry him to Fitful Head in my little boat, which Giles and I can manage as...for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit." " " I showed little wit in entrusting myself to your charge," said Triptolemus ; " and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...prominence to ' his violent passion, implacable revenge, and boldness amounting to temerity : ' — ' A daring pilot in extremity Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, Ho sought the storms : hut, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-infonned 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... | |
 | J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 pages
...which, working oufTits way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-infonned 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... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - Great Britain - 1871 - 652 pages
...which working ont its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.1 A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a culm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 732 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 the sands to boast his... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pages
...prominence to ' his violent passion, implacable revenge, and boldness amounting to temerity : ' — ' 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... | |
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