| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 ; Pleased with the danger,...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 pagina’s
...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; Pleased with the danger,...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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pagina’s
...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 : 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, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pagina’s
...which, working out it's way, Fretted flie pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of day. 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, And thin partitions do their bounds divide:... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform' d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd W G / ; Clw% un6t, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...pigmy body to deeay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of elay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd ()n daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange ealm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd,... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 pagina’s
...passion, implacable revenge, boldness amounting to temerity, are the most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the 'great wits to madness near allied.' And again— Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would... | |
| 1840 - 372 pagina’s
...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 ; Pleased with the danger...the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too rrigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do... | |
| Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pagina’s
...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 ; Pleased with the danger when the waves were high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.... | |
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