 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 British poets, including translations - 20 ページBritish poets 著 - 1822全文表示 - この書籍について
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 ページ
...disgrace ; A fiery soul, which worketh out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity;...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to Ijoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 ページ
...What real praise appears incidentally, and subservient to blame, in the character of Shaftesbury — A daring pilot in extremity : Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms. And again, at the close of the same passage, there is direct testimony to worth — Yet fame deserved... | |
 | 1855 - 834 ページ
...Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high, He sought the .storms ; but for a calm unfit,...steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits arc sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 ページ
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; <* r Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, 160 He sought the storms ; but for a 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 ; {Else why... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 ページ
...disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed4 the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits5 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 ページ
...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...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. (Jn.-at wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 ページ
...striking features. Ahiihophel is one of the " great wits tc ma^ :.«ss near allied." And again— 14 A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...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 appeared... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 ページ
...o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went 1 He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wi Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 ページ
...striking features. Ahilhophel is one of the " great wits lo ша<! :i;ss near allied." And again — " A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought Ihe storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer loo nigh Um »anda lo boasl uU wit."* The dates of the... | |
 | 1856 - 598 ページ
...anil Achitoj>liel. C. " When waves run high, A daring pilot in extremity." The right version is, — " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high." Absalom and Achitophel, 160. XH Tale wanted (2nd S. i. 11.)— I beg to refer a.fl. to a... | |
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