 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 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 ; Eke why should... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 446 pages
...disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way. Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inl'orm'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to bcfest his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin paititions do their bounds divide;... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 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." * * It has never, we belteve, been re- ltnes tn the descrtptton of Ahtthophel marked, that two of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...in a new light in the world. They will show that he had no A daring pilot in extremity ; ' I'leas'd 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, hand in the Dnchess of Orleans's treaty, made at Dover... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 442 pages
...disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-iniorm'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;...went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unlit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 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...storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh thn sands to boast his wit." * * It has never, we belieje, been re- lines in the description of Ahithophel... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 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... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 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... | |
 | 1867
...celebrated character of the Earl of Shaftesbury, described in the person of Achitophel : — " Pleased with the danger, when the waves* went high, He sought...storms : but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh thi- sands to boast his wit" On the same occasion the Earl of Derby declaimed that passage in Collins's... | |
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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. 
