 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...its 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...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,... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 pages
...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...bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ;... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...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,...bounds divide: Else, why should he, with wealth and honors blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankiupt... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - Demonology - 1869 - 486 pages
...indifferently, and might have convinced the authors, that the charm of " Absalom and Achitophel " lav 1 f " Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin...bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest. Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ; Punish a body which he could not please ;... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...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...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 ;... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 356 pages
...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 calm unfit, Would...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. But whatever we may think of Mirabeau's treatment, our blood boils when we read of that which was suffered... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 406 pages
...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 calm unfit, Would...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. But whatever we may think of Mirabeau's treatment, our blood boils when we read of that which was suffered... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...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, 160 He...bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, 165 Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...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, 160 He...bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, 165 Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...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...bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest f Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt... | |
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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. 
