 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1881 - 650 pages
...came too late." t In a few years more Shaftesbury had earned the praise, or dispraise, of Dryden, " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger when the waves run high.1' The history of the Cabal ministry, which extends over a period of six years, is not the... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1883 - 760 pages
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy Body to decay, And o'er-iaform'd 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 steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1883 - 516 pages
...which, working out its way, Éretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-intorm'd 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 steer too night the Sandfi to boast his wit. Great... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...which, working ont its way, Fretted the pygmy-hody to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.2 A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He songht the storms. /,-., 10S Great wits are snre to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...have not quailed to danger's brow When high and happy — need I now ? 1. BYBON— ffioour. L. 1,036. s8@ 1 sought the storms, m. DBYDBN — Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. IL 139. When the judges shall be obliged... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 348 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 ; 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... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 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 ; 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed 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 steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.8 A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms. Line I56. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1909 - 428 pages
...intrepidity exactly fitted him for the task of breaking down opposition. Like Dryden's Achitophel, he was " A daring pilot in extremity : Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms." Unhappily, we must add, " but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands... | |
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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 steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 
