 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 страници
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay: 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 show his wit.... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 страници
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its tenement of clay : 10 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 show his... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 406 страници
...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 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 356 страници
...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 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 88 страници
...eccentric courses and dangerous experiments in legislation. It was not of such as he that Dryden wrote — "A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storm, but for a calm unfit Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 92 страници
...courses and dangerous experiments in legislation. It was not of such as he that Dryden wrote — " A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storm, but for a culm unfit Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 страници
...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, when the waves went high He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | Charles Cowley - 1871 - 354 страници
...him : — " For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. . . . A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high." He was born at Deerfield in New Hampshire, November 5th, 1818. In early infancy, he lost his father, a... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 страници
...o'er-informed the tenement of clay. 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. Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 510 страници
...o'er-informed the tenement of clay. 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." It was at his house in Aldersgate Street, after Lord Shaftesbury's... | |
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A fiery soul, 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, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer... 
