 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd, ead, To piek her wint'ry faggot from the thorn, To...only left, of all the harmless train, The sad histor whieh he eotdd not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave what with his... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...he returns home, he buys a seat in Parliament, and studies the constitution. — Mackenzie. CCCCXCVL Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin...divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? • Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...returns home, he buys a seat in Parliament, and studies the constitution. — Mackenzie. CCCCXCVI. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin...divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...character, in several respects, in A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waveswent high He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. a new light in the world. They will show that he had no hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...expression of passion more dangerous than thai of* clamour and confusion, bringing up iho rear. Ho sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits arc sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 630 pages
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the 'great wits to madness near allied.' And again— Pleased with the danger when the waves went high,...storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sauds to boast his wit.'* 'A daring pilot in extremity, The dates of the two poems will, we think,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 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...divide ; • Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 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...the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too rrigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the dangerwhen the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ! i Punish a body which he could not please ; | Hani, nipt of life, yet prodigal of ease! And all to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inforni'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd ften truly great and magnificent in his style and...with a strong tinge of the fantast : the humorist ; * Klse why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest f Punish... | |
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A 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. 
