...the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre."1 And have often noted " A daring pilot in extremity : Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storm."3 In the merciless Wars of the Roses, and in the protracted conflict of Charles I with his Parliament,...

...disgrace, A fiery soul 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...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:...

...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,...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 15 And thin partitions do their bounds divide...

...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." He had no such ambition...

...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." He had no such ambition...

...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 Ho sought the storm, but for a calm unfit Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." Ho had...

...the context can have this insulating power even if it is only a single clause: cc 1 ror a calm unlit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied.6 The first wit means 'sense', common sense, prudence. But wits in the next line means a good...

...Atlantic by air— Manchester Guardian) Daring heightens the implication of fearlessness <a during pilot in extremity, pleased with the danger, when the waves went high — Dryden) Daredevil implies ostentation in daring and is often specifically applied to adversary...

...again,' said the Factor. ' Why, to be sure,' replied the minstrel, ' I am, as glorious John says, — " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves go high, I seek the storm — but, for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit."...

...Clausen A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay: And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;...danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms . . . John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel" A little past five in the morning on April 18, 1906, an...