 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 324 pages
...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...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to Ijoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; <* r 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 his wit. Great-wits ate-sure-to madness. .pear allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; {Else why... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 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...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." Or, in the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...of the " great wits tc ma^ :.«ss near allied." And again— 14 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 - 1856 - 590 pages
...o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went 1 He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wi Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...the pigmy body to decay, And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. 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. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. In friendship... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1857 - 692 pages
...Ishbosheth the crown forego." 17. " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas' d with the danger when the waves ran high, He sought the storms, but, for a calm unfit,...Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit." 18. " Sunk were his eyes, his voice was harsh and loud, Sure signs he neither choleric was, nor proud... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...of the " great wit? lo mat? inns near allied." And again — "A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased two. many saride lo bout big wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, expiai» this discrepancy. The... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...pilot in extremity, Pleca'd with the danger when the waves went •''..,/., He lought the ttornu ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show hi* wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ,•*... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went higa, He sought the storing ; but for a calm unfit. Would steer too nigh the sands to bout hi« wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, expiais this discrepancy. The third part... | |
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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. 
