 | John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 644 pages
...flaring 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...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 - English literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...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 boast his wit." Absalom and Achitophel.] 4 [Bishop Burnet represents him as addicted to judicial astrology: but Mr.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd witli the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a 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 - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...pilot in extremity ; 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 wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...pilot in extremity ; (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 wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...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 boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with thedaiigeVu hen the waveswenthigh, lie ionght the storms ; but, ew Marseilles' good bishop purer Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...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 nigh the sands, to boast his wit.'* V. 355-6. So politic, >!.-. if one eye Upon the other were a spy.] In a poem, entitled the Progress... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 714 pages
...in extremity ; [ hiçh. Pleas'd »ith the danger, when the waves л ent He sought the storm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great nits are sure to madness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
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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. 
