 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 sivua
...pilot in extremity; 139 Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storm; hut, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits arc sure to rrradness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | 1801 - 416 sivua
...daring pilot in extremity; r& Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high Hejsought the storm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 sivua
...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...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." Absalom and Achitophel.] 4 [Bishop Burnet represents him as addicted to judicial astrology: but Mr.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 sivua
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-infornTd tbe tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when the waves went high He sought the...calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast bis wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their hounds divide ; Else... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 sivua
...working out its way, "^ Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, > And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; } A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger,...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 ; Else, why... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 sivua
...working out its way, "1 Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, / And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; -) A daring pilot in extremity ; (Pleased with the danger,...\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 ; Else, why... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 sivua
...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...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 ; Else why should... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sivua
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with thedaiigeVu hen the waveswenthigh, lie ionght the sire ? Why drew Marseilles' good bishop purer Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 sivua
...pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-infortn'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms: but, for a cairn unlit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd,... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 828 sivua
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay ; And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger,...high, He sought the storms, but for a calm unfit, teer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." leighton, ancestor to the present Duke of Marlborongh, but... | |
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A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, 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 a calm unfit, Would steer... 
