 A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. 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...  The London Quarterly Review - Стр. 1731871Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Bell - 1777 - Страниц: 644
...pilot in extremity; 139 Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storm; hut, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits arc sure to rrradness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | 1801 - Страниц: 416
...daring pilot in extremity; r& Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high Hejsought the storm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - Страниц: 498
...pigmy-body to decay ; 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...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." Absalom and Achitophel.] 4 [Bishop Burnet represents him as addicted to judicial astrology: but Mr.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Страниц: 382
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-infornTd tbe tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when the waves went high He sought the...calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast bis wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their hounds divide ; Else... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Страниц: 482
...working out its way, "^ Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, > And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; } A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger,...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 divide ; Else, why... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Страниц: 476
...working out its way, "1 Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, / And o'er-informed the tenement of clay ; -) A daring pilot in extremity ; (Pleased with the danger,...\Would steer too nigh' the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - Страниц: 374
...pigmy body to decay, > And 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...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 divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - Страниц: 604
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with thedaiigeVu hen the waveswenthigh, lie ionght the sire ? Why drew Marseilles' good bishop purer Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 654
...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 - Страниц: 828
...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... | |
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