 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd 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 their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...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. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...daring pilot in adversity, 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." "My Lords," said Shaftesbury in 1G79, "I never study either to make my court or to be popular. I always... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...extremity; [high, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went •VOL. v. B 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 their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waveswent high He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. a new light in the world. They will show that he had no hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made... | |
 | 576 pages
...daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the wave went high, He sought the ttorm ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." After the fall of Clarendon, who, though not untainted by sordid vices, was too good a man for his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...more dangerous than thai of* clamour and confusion, bringing up iho rear. Ho sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits arc sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 466 pages
...daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd 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 their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves were 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 their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the daugerwhen 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 their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
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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. 
