 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inforni'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 662 pages
...again," said the Factor. " Why, to be sure," replied the minstrel, " I am, as glorious John says, — ' A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves go high, I seek the storm — but, for a calm unfit. Will steer too near the sands, to shew my wit.'... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed5 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremety ; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high,...for a calm unfit, 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 630 pages
...unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger when the waves ran high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too near the sands to boast his witIn friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin or to rule... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...pigmy body to decay, > And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. j A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought...steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ;* Else, why should he, with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...pigmy body to decay, > And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought...steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide y* Else, why should he, with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...or pretended, which was sworn to by the infamous Titus Oates. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought...steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide? Else, why should he, with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 416 pages
...the Duke of Monmouth against the Catholic and Court interest. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas' 'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought...Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great u-its to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ;2 Else, why should... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...madness near allied." And again — " A daring pilot In eitremlty, Pleased with the danger when the wares s country the same feelings with one who has suffered nothing from loo nigh the sands to boast hii wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy.... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1846 - 350 pages
...continental relations with other powers, 5 Speed; Ord. Vit. 9 Chron. Sax.; Ord. Vit.; Walsingham. ' "A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high He sought the siorms " Urj'den. Absalom and Achitophel. and of the continued tranquillity... | |
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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. 
