 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 pagina’s
...extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unlit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pagina’s
...world. They will show that he had no A daring pilot in extremity ; ' I'leas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms ; but for...his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, hand in the Dnchess of Orleans's treaty, made at Dover for the interests of popery ; that Charles first... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pagina’s
...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." * * It has never, we belteve, been re- ltnes tn the descrtptton of Ahtthophel marked, that two of the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 pagina’s
...too nigh the sands to bcfest his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin paititions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth...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... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pagina’s
...decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for...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 ? THE WAR-HORSE.... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pagina’s
...And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for...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 ? THE WAR-HORSE.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pagina’s
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high lt*> He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would...Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, J65 Refqpe his age the needful hours of rest 1 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 pagina’s
...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...Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Kefuse his age the needful hours of rest t Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 pagina’s
...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...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.' Or, in the lines which he sent to Tonson the publisher as a specimen of what he could do in the way... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
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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. 
