 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - Počet stránok 496
...What real praise appears incidentally, and subservient to blame, in the character of Shaftesbury — A daring pilot in extremity : Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms. And again, at the close of the same passage, there is direct testimony to worth — Yet fame deserved... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - Počet stránok 350
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; <* r Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, 160 He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great-wits ate-sure-to madness. .pear allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - Počet stránok 528
...principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd...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."... | |
 | David Masson - 1856 - Počet stránok 494
...principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd...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 - 1856 - Počet stránok 592
...impatient of disgrace : Afierr sonjj which, working out its way.' • , , . Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, / *''• ' And o'er-inform'd the tenement...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. (Jn.-at wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - Počet stránok 518
...disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed4 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits5 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - Počet stránok 752
...striking features. Ahiihophel is one of the " great wits tc ma^ :.«ss near allied." And again— 14 A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The third part... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - Počet stránok 770
...striking features. Ahilhophel is one of the " great wits lo ша<! :i;ss near allied." And again — " A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought Ihe storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer loo nigh Um »anda lo boasl uU wit."* The dates of the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - Počet stránok 590
...o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went 1 He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wi Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1856 - Počet stránok 528
...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, Ho sought the deop." His was a compromising spirit, much more resembling the character of... | |
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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. 
