 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 522 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, Pleased with the danger...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... | |
 | 1878 - 446 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, 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 162 pages
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the "great wits to madness near allied." And again— "A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the samls to boast his wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 pages
...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...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 - 596 pages
...condition of things best suited toLord Palmerston's genius. ' 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.' Over and over again he brought the nation into danger, and the Crown into difficulties by the ardour... | |
 | Howard Evans - 1879 - 398 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 ; Pleased with the danger...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 - 1880 - 524 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, 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 pages
...most striking features. Achitophel is one of the " great wits to madness near allied." And again — "A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." * * It has never, we believe, been remarked that two of the most striking lines in the description... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 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, 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy* 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.* NOTES. — Line 3. elose deslgns, secret plots. 4. turhulent of wit = a turbulent spirit. 6. In power.... | |
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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. 
