 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 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...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... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
....-\/).Ч(|/<шт íiml Ai'liítí>i>ln'l ( l 68 1 ) pt. 1,1. 150 1 A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unlit. .Mvufuni imil At'ltilophel ( 1 68 1 1 pt. i, I. i 59 2 Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
 | Susan J. Owen - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 210 pages
...imagery in Dryden's political poem Absalom and Achitophel, where Whig leader Shaftesbury is described as: A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the Danger,...Would Steer too nigh the Sands, to boast his Wit.' ' The republican Senator Priuli is an unfit father, and also unfit to steer the ship of state. As a... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - History - 2002 - 380 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 . . . In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolved to ruin or to rule the State. He was determined... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity: 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 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, 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 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 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...the Storms; but for a Calm unfit, Would steer too near the Sands, to boast his Wit. Great Wits are sure to Madness near allied; And thin Partitions do... | |
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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. 
