 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high lt*> conspicuous for many passages of strength and elegance, and many of empty noise and ridiculou Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1854 - 622 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 the storms; but, for a calm unfit, AVould steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 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...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 Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 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...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:... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay : 10 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, 15 And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 356 pages
...race. He was another Achitophel: (3) A fiery soul, •which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay....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. But whatever... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 406 pages
...race. He was another Achitophel : |3) A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay....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. But whatever... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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...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... | |
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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. 
