 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 pages
...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." l 'It has never, we believe, been remarked, that two of the most striking lines in the description... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 pages
...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." ' 1 It has never, we believe, been remarked, that two of the most striking lines in the description... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...allied." And again — ' A daring pilot In extremity, Pleaned with the danger when the wares went higb He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nlgb tb« «ande lo boast big wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...near allied." And again — 'A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves wen He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we thinly ixplaii? this discrepancy. The third part of Hudibras appeared... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed its 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: Else, why... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...pigmy body to decay, And e'er-informed 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 tliin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...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...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... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 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...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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay, A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the dangers when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, f Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...ordinaire; — l'un et l'autre (signe de bon jugement!) toujours dans l'excès, — si extrêmement vioA daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to hoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do Iheir boir.ids dmde;... | |
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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. 
