 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Books - 1856 - 526 pages
...for a calm," and not one that would " steer too near the shore to show his wit," any more than, like "a daring pilot in extremity," — " Pleased with the danger when the waves run high, He scmght the deep." His was a compromising spirit, much more resembling the character of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1856 - 598 pages
...anil Achitoj>liel. C. " When waves run high, A daring pilot in extremity." The right version is, — " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high." Absalom and Achitophel, 160. XH Tale wanted (2nd S. i. 11.)— I beg to refer a.fl. to a... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...disgrace ; A fiery soul which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity,...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.... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1857 - 692 pages
...Ishbosheth the crown forego." 17. " 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 nigh the sands, to boast his wit." 18. " Sunk were his eyes, his voice was harsh and loud, Sure signs he neither choleric... | |
 | Andrew Amos - Constitutional history - 1857 - 374 pages
...martial law. His less scrupulous successor, Lord Shaftesbury, A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms, commenced his administration by issuing writs of his own authority for the election of new members... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wit? lo mat? inns near allied." And again — might easily be paid off in a year or two. many saride lo bout big wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, expiai» this discrepancy. The... | |
 | War office - 1858 - 578 pages
...turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A daring pilot in extremity; . Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high, He sought the storm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too near the sand» to boast his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...striking features. Ahilhophel is one of the " gr:at vit? ta ina<? •>;*$ near allied." Aud again — " A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went higa, He sought the storing ; but for a calm unfit. Would steer too nigh the sands to bout hi« wit."*... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...pilot in extremity, Pleca'd with the danger when the waves went •''..,/., He lought the ttornu ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show hi* wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ,•*... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 pages
...striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits to 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 boast his wit." l 'It has never, we believe, been remarked, that two of the most striking lines in... | |
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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. 
