 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 342 Seiten
...to madness near allied." And again — x "A daring pilot in extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went high , He sought the storms; but, for...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...And o'er-informed 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...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest 1 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease1 And all to leave... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 Seiten
...And o'er-informed 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...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest 7 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 Seiten
...And o'er-inform'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...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 Seiten
...of his career. Quote Pope's lines on his death. Why was Dryden especially bitter against him ? 1 2. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin...bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boost his wit. Great wit» are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions...divide ;* Else why should he, with wealth and honour bleat. Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not plejise ; Bankrupt... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 Seiten
...waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to Ijoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied,...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 342 Seiten
...the world. They will show that he had no A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms ; but for...his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made at Dover for the interests of popery ; that Charles first... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 Seiten
...is not wit that brings a man to hanging, That goes not further than a harmless banging. Buekingham. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body whieh he eould not please ! Bankrupt of life, yet prodigo) of ease ? And all to leave... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 Seiten
...calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great-wits ate-sure-to madness. .pear allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...blest, ' ^Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease ? And all to leave... | |
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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. 
