 | 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...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." Absalom and Achitophel.] 4 [Bishop Burnet represents him as addicted to judicial astrology:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-infornTd tbe tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when the waves went high He sought the...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast bis wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their hounds divide... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pages
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, "^ Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, > And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pages
...unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, "1 Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, / And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-infortn'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 cairn unlit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd,... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 828 pages
...disgrace; A fiery soul, 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...high, He sought the storms, but for a calm unfit, teer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." leighton, ancestor to the present Duke of Marlborongh, but... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...disgrace; A fiery soul. which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay; And o'er-intbrm'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;...waves went high, He sought the storms, but for a calm unfis, too nigh the sands to boast his wit " Absalom and Actltofitf, Jeighton, ancestor to the present... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 pages
...the tenement of clay. •* A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves ran high He sought the storms, but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit.'* V. 355-6. So politic, >!.-. if one eye Upon the other were a spy.] In a poem, entitled... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pages
...disgrace : A fiery soul 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...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... | |
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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. 
