 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...tenement of clay. J 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 show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide y*... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas 'd with the danger when the wave* went high, When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his...with age and travel, coming towards him, who won a blot, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest I Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, fair Olympia pren'd ; hid wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bouuds divide;* Else... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...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...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Give the exact meaning of the words "fretted" — " o'er-informed" — " wit" — and " great wits."... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, pointing-stocks to man, Drest up in civilest shape,...noteless, and unknown, Yet she's betray'd by some t thiu partitions do their bounds divide ;* Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1904 - 668 pages
...little more than that "'twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee." JOHN T. CURRY. Dryden qualifies it thus : — Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. ' Absalom and Achitophel,' i. 163-4. WFH King, in his ' Classical Quotations,' says that Seneca quotes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, Mi< art doth give the fnxhion ; blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ! Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...allied." And again — "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."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The third part of Hudibras appeared... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 342 pages
...allied." And again — x "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." * ' The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The third part of Hudibras... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...Conquest of Grenada. " And whistled as he went for want of thought." DRTDKN'S Cymon and Iphigenia, " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." DRYDEN'S Absalom and Achitophcl, St. i. 1. 163. " The tenth transmitter of a foolish face." — SAVAGE.... | |
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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. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds... 
