| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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 boost his wit. Great wit» are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 324 pages
...unfixed in principles and place ; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which worketh out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to Ijoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...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... | |
| Daniel Defoe - English fiction - 1854 - 550 pages
...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough: — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1854 - 546 pages
...tenant within. The famous lines of Dryden might be happily applied to the Earl of Peterborough: — A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. His face, judging from the print in Dr. Birch's Lives, was thin... | |
| John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...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 ; {Else why... | |
| John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...which, working out its way.' • , , . Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, / *''• ' And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay/ A daring pilot in extremity...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 ; Else why... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...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...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 of Hudibras appeared... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...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 ; Else why... | |
| David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfix'd in 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 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves... | |
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