 | 1801 - 416 pages
...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;... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 pages
...pigmy-body to decay ; And o'er-infonn'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." Absalom and Achitophc!.] * [Bishop Burnet represents him as addicted to judicial actrology:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 494 pages
...daring pilot in extremity; 159 Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...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...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 Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...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...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 Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...its way, "1 Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, / And o'er-informed the tenement of clay; -) (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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with thedaiigeVu hen the waveswenthigh, lie ionght 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 652 pages
...the 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 ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
