 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 480 pages
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place ; In power unpleaVd impatient of disgrace : A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased 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 wit.... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits tc madness near allied." And again — 'A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger...for a calm unfit. Would steer too nigh the sands to boait bis wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think. explain this discrepancy. The third part... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1852 - 378 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1852 - 532 pages
...statesman, would endeavour to allay the prevalent excitement : — " A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; hut, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." When the whole framework... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 574 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 show my wit."... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 406 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 norm — hut, for a calm unfit. Will steer too near the gandj, to shew my wit*... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 654 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 show my wit."... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 342 pages
...respects, in a new light in the world. They will show that he had no 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, hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty,... | |
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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. 
