 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 nigh the sands to boast his wit.  The Life of John Locke - Pagina 137door Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 506 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 pagina’s
...daring pilot in extremity Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, Ho sought the storms : hut, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.' ' The dates of the two poems will,' he suggests, ' explain this discrepancy: the third part of "Hudibras"... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 pagina’s
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'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, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | 1902 - 742 pagina’s
...taken their opinion from the better known verdict of the laureate: " A. daring pilot in adversity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high,...Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit." "My Lords," said Shaftesbury in 1G79, "I never study either to make my court or to be popular. I always... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pagina’s
...Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; [high, 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform' d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm un6t, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd,... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pagina’s
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; [high, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went 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 - 1832 - 342 pagina’s
...this Appendix will set his character, in several respects, in A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went hig-h He sought...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. a new light in the world. They will show that he had no hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made... | |
 | 1834 - 340 pagina’s
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inforra'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'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, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should... | |
 | 576 pagina’s
...A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the wave went high, He sought the ttorm ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." After the fall of Clarendon, who, though not untainted by sordid vices, was too good a man for his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pagina’s
...expression of passion more dangerous than thai of* clamour and confusion, bringing up iho rear. Ho sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits arc sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
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