 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 wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied...  Elegant Extracts - Page 282redigeeritud poolt - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 lehte
...waves went high He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied,...bounds divide : Else, why should he, with wealth and honours blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ;... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 lehte
...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...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Eke why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 lehte
...extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unlit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great...bounds divide; Else why .should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 lehte
...had no A daring pilot in extremity ; ' I'leas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too...his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, hand in the Dnchess of Orleans's treaty, made at Dover for the interests of popery ; that Charles first... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 lehte
...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...bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ;... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 lehte
...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...bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 lehte
...clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high lt*> He sought s for many passages of strength and elegance, and...; and were at length, if his own confession may be honour blest, J65 Refqpe his age the needful hours of rest 1 Punish a body which he could not please... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 lehte
...Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, AVould steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.' Or, in the lines which he sent to Tonson the publisher as a specimen of what he could do in the way... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 lehte
...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...bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blesl, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest •I Punish a body which he could not please... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 lehte
...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...bounds divide : Else, why should he, with wealth and honours blest. Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please,... | |
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