 | Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 348 páginas
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of cl$y. 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.' (Aiaalom and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 páginas
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits to madness near allied." And again — " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." * * It has never, we believe, been remarked, that two of the most striking lines in the description... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 páginas
...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,...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 ; Klse, why... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 1084 páginas
...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits to madness near allied." And again — " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."* * It ha« never, we believe, been remarked, that two of the most striking linne In the description... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 páginas
...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,...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. How safe... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 páginas
...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,...calm unfit ! Would steer too nigh the sands to boast hia wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. How... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 páginas
...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,...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... | |
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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. 
