 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves wont 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... | |
 | William Collins - 1877 - 104 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Sinclair Brooke - 1877 - 264 pages
...pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storm — but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit," I cannot say, but certainly in a most elaborate discourse, he repeatedly denied his text in seeking... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 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... | |
 | English literature - 1878 - 596 pages
...daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves west high He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.' Over and over again he brought the nation into danger, and the Crown into difficulties by the ardour... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1878 - 518 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... | |
 | 1878 - 646 pages
...daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms ; bat, for a calm unfit. Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.' Over and over again he brought the nation into danger, and the Crown into difficulties by the ardour... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 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." Shaftcsbury House, Aldersgate. Lord Shaftesbury chose this house as a residence that he might the better... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...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 wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 522 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." Shaftesbury House, Aldersgate. Lord Shaftesbury chose this house as a residence that he might the better... | |
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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. 
