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" 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. Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he,... "
Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell: Astraea Redux; Annus Mirabilis ... - Sivu 90
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Bell's Edition, Niteet 41–42

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 should he,...

Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

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...boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd,...

A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and ..., Nide 3

Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 sivua
...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 calm unfit, 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....

Poetical Works

John Dryden - 1808 - 382 sivua
...tbe tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a 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...

Elegant Extracts, Niteet 1–2

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 honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please -,...

The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Nide 8

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 sivua
...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, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Rise why should he, with wealth and honour blest,...

Hudibras: Poem, Nide 1

Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 sivua
...tenement of clay. •* 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.'* V. 355-6. So politic, >!.-. if one eye Upon the other were a spy.] In a poem, entitled the Progress...

Contains the earls to the termination of the seventeenth century

Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 828 sivua
...contempt by Dryden, in the passage following that already cited : " Great wits to madness surely are allied ; And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honours blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body, which he could not please,...

Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 sivua
...contempt by Dryden, in the passage following that already cited : " Great wits to madness surely are allied ; And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honours blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest •' Punish a body, which he could not please,...

The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Nide 4

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 sivua
...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 too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...




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