...imagery in Absalom and Achttophel, where Shaftesbury is described as A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the Danger, when the Waves went high He sought...Would Steer too nigh the Sands, to boast his Wit. (159-62) The republican senator Priuli is cowardly and incompetent, rather than fanatical, like Shaftesbury,...

...Fretted the pigmy body to decay. .-\/).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,...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,...

...disgrace. A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;...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...

...and Achitophel, where Whig leader Shaftesbury is described as: A daring Pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the Danger, when the Waves went high He sought...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...

...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...

...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...