 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - Počet stránok 738
...bon jugement!) toujours dans l'excès, — si extrêmement vioA 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 hoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do Iheir boir.ids dmde;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - Počet stránok 352
...again," said the Factor. " Why, to be sure," replied the minstrel, " I am, as glorious John says, — ' A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves go high, I seek the storm — but, for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit."... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Počet stránok 336
...disgrace; 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....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;... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - 1984 - Počet stránok 950
...Atlantic by air— Manchester Guardian) Daring heightens the implication of fearlessness <a during pilot in extremity, pleased with the danger, when the waves went high — Dryden) Daredevil implies ostentation in daring and is often specifically applied to adversary... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1902 - Počet stránok 394
...again,' said the Factor. ' Why, to be sure,' replied the minstrel, ' I am, as glorious John says, — " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves go high, I seek the storm — but, for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit."... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - Počet stránok 514
...disgrace. 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;...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 L. Fox - 1997 - Počet stránok 606
...Clausen A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;...danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms . . . John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel" A little past five in the morning on April 18, 1906, an... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - Počet stránok 1160
...Fretted the pigmy body to decay. .-\/).Ч(|/<шт íiml Ai'liítí>i>ln'l ( l 68 1 ) pt. 1,1. 150 1 A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger,...waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unlit. .Mvufuni imil At'ltilophel ( 1 68 1 1 pt. i, I. i 59 2 Great wits are sure to madness near allied,... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - 2002 - Počet stránok 380
...disgrace. 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;...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit . . . In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolved to ruin or to rule the State.... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - Počet stránok 484
...which working out its way 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'erinformed the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity: 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... | |
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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. 
