 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...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...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 appeared... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...disgrace : 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...disgrace : 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...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 Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 480 pages
...unpleaVd impatient of disgrace : A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high, He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit. Would steer too near the sands to boast his wit. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Rcsolv'd to ruin or to rule... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas' d with the danger when the waves went high, He sought...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... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...one of the " great wits tc madness near allied." And again — 'A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased n H * boait bis wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think. explain this discrepancy. The third part... | |
 | 1852 - 532 pages
...pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; hut, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." When the whole framework of society was threatened with violent disruption, at the period of the reform... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...uripleos'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....for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boost his wit. Great wit» are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high, 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 - English poetry - 1854 - 342 pages
...set his character, in several respects, in a new light in the world. They will show that he had no A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger,...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made at Dover... | |
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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. 
