 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 950 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." ' 1 It has never, we believe, been remarked, that two of the most striking lines in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...allied." And again — ' A daring pilot In extremity, Pleaned with the danger when the wares went higb He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nlgb tb« «ande lo boast big wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 466 pages
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits to madness near allied." And again — "A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a ealm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."* * It has never, we believe, been remarked,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits to matess near allied." And again — 8 R1 Q1 wen He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."*... | |
 | 1883 - 598 pages
...finest he ever heard. He was an admirable letter-writer, and by many was thought to be Junius. He was "A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high." In the Eegency dispute he was unsuccessful, more on account of his client than his doctrine.... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay....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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...disgrace : A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And e'er-informed 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 tliin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...disgrace : A fiery sou), which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er -informed 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... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...disgrace; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed its tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased...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:... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay, A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the dangers when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, f Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And... | |
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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. 
