...inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the dangerwhen the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit,...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ! i Punish a body which he could not please ; | Hani, nipt of life, yet prodigal of ease! And all to...

...o'er-inforni'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went his style and diction, though, doubtless, too often...with a strong tinge of the fantast : the humorist ; * Klse why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest f Punish...

...o'er-informed5 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremety ; 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 wits6 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; 1 Johnson. " Lives...

...belong." Gelwir hi weithiau yn wallgofrwydd dwyfol, a cheir gan Dryden y bardd y geiriau adnabyddus : " Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.'1 Deil Lombroso ac eraill fod cysylltiad tra agos rhwng athrylith a gwallgofrwydd — lien...

...unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace : A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger when the waves ran high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too near the sands to boast his witIn friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin or to rule...

...the infamous Titus Oates. 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?...

...o'er-inform'd the 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 ;*...

...near allied." And again — " A daring pilot In eitremlty, Pleased with the danger when the wares went ntry the same feelings with one who has suffered nothing from loo nigh the sands to boast hii wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy....

...o'er-infonn'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas 'd with the danger when the wave* went — ' When Abraham sat at his tent door, according...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...

...o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went he to fair Olympia pren'd ; hid wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bouuds divide;* Else...