 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 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...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." Absalom and Achitophel.] 4 [Bishop Burnet represents him as addicted to judicial astrology: but Mr.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...working out its way, "1 Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, / And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; -) A daring pilot in extremity ; (Pleased with the danger,...\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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...working out its way, "^ Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, > And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; } A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger,...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...pigmy body to decay, > And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...which, working out it's way, Fretted flie pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of day. A daring pilot in extremity: Pleased with the danger,...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide:... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pages
...which, working out it's 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,...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 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...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... | |
 | 1822 - 314 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; Pleased with the danger,...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... | |
 | 1902 - 742 pages
...taken their opinion from the better known verdict of the laureate: " A. daring pilot in adversity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high,...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... | |
 | 1839 - 466 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...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. 
