 | Howard Evans - Land tenure - 1879 - 398 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." The censure is qualified by a few lines of praise, eulogising Shaftesbury as an incorruptible Judge in... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 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... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 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.* NOTES. — Line 3. elose deslgns, secret plots. 4. turhulent of wit = a turbulent spirit. 6. In power.... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 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... | |
 | Susan J. Owen - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 210 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.' ' The republican Senator Priuli is an unfit father, and also unfit to steer the ship of state. As a father... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - History - 2002 - 380 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 . . . In friendship false, implacable in hate; Resolved to ruin or to rule the State. He was determined... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 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... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 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... | |
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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. 
