 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...Court interest. f The Popish Plot, real or pretended, which was sworn to by the infamous Titus Gates. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide?... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...working out its way, } Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. j A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ;*... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...working out its way, -\ Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide y*... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...the Duke of Monmouth against the Catholic and Court interest. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas' 'd 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 u-its to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...madness near allied." And again — " A daring pilot In eitremlty, Pleased with the danger when the wares s country the same feelings with one who has suffered nothing from loo nigh the sands to boast hii wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...power unplcaVd, impnticnt of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body ts above, Such is the power of mighty Love ! A dragon's...spheres he rode. When he to fair Olympia pren'd ; hid wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bouuds divide;* Else... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...o'er-infonn'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas 'd with the danger when the wave* oks : — ' When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, h Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; * Else why... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...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. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Give the exact... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inforni'd t upon her tongue, Of all that was Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thiu partitions do their bounds divide ;* Else why... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 342 pages
...one of the "great wits to madness near allied." And again — x "A daring pilot in extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went high , He sought...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." * ' The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The third part of Hudibras... | |
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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. 
