 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...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...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...flie pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of day. A daring pilot in extremity: Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide:... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 714 pages
...pilot in extremity ; [ hiçh. Pleas'd »ith the danger, when the waves л ent He sought the storm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great nits are sure to madness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay....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... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...their opinion from the better known verdict of the laureate: " A. daring pilot in adversity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought...Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit." "My Lords," said Shaftesbury in 1G79, "I never study either to make my court or to be popular. I always... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...disgrace : A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform' d N ߚ R ( *kϰ J Q 6 a B c Z]g- W G / ; Clw% un6t, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...clay. A daring pilot in extremity; [high, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went •VOL. v. B He sought the storms; but, for a calm 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...character, in several respects, in A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waveswent high He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. a new light in the world. They will show that he had no hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made... | |
 | 576 pages
...A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the wave went high, He sought the ttorm ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." After the fall of Clarendon, who, though not untainted by sordid vices, was too good a man for his... | |
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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 wit. 
