| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...And o'er-informed5 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremety ; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits6 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; 1 Johnson. " Lives... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pagina’s
...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide?...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest; Punish a body which he could not please. Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease, And all to leave what... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagina’s
...o'er-infonn'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas 'd with the danger when the wave* oks : — ' When Abraham sat at his tent door, according...with age and travel, coming towards him, who won a blot, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest I Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagina’s
...And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when he rode. When he to fair Olympia pren'd ; hid wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bouuds divide;* Else... | |
| Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pagina’s
...daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high He sought the storm ; but for a calm unfit Would steer too nigh the sands...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Give the exact meaning of the words "fretted" — " o'er-informed" — " wit" — and " great wits."... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 484 pagina’s
...indifferently, and might have convinced the authors, that the charm of " Absalom and Achitophel " lay 1 C " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin...Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refute his afre the needful hours of rest ; • Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pagina’s
...And o'er-inforni'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when ecause they should be pointing-stocks to man, Drest...noteless, and unknown, Yet she's betray'd by some t thiu partitions do their bounds divide ;* Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pagina’s
...And o'er-inforiu'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when ntle Shakspeare, mast enjoy a part. For though the...matter nature be, Mi< art doth give the fnxhion ; ! Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease! And all to leave... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 pagina’s
...wits to madness near allied." And again — "A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The third part of Hudibras appeared... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 556 pagina’s
...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...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. After Lord Shaftesbury's final dismissal from office, it was at his house iu Aldersgate Street that... | |
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