 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
 | Charles Cowley - Agricultural exhibitions - 1871 - 354 pages
...him : — " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. . . . A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high." He was born at Deerfield in New Hampshire, November 5th, 1818. In early infancy, he lost... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 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... | |
 | English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...is a storm of that degree of intensity which ie, strictly speaking, known only within the tropics. " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms." Dryden. " The afternoon was tempestuous, with much rain, and the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 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, 160 He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body g to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clayv / A daring pilot in extremity, ' Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, loo He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast... | |
 | 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, He songht the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 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, 160 He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1872 - 696 pages
...dwelling." ' " I wish to heaven you had brought me as safe back again," said the Factor. " "Why, t» be sure," replied the minstrel, " I am, as glorious...with the danger when the waves go high, I seek the itorra — but, for a cnlm unlit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit.' " " I showed little... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 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 Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 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... | |
| |
