...again," said the Factor. " Why to be sure," replied the minstrel, " I am, as glorious John says, — A daring pilot in extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves go high, I seek the storm — but, for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit."...

...which worketh 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...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...

...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...

...to temerity, are the most striking features. Ahilhophel is one of the " great wits lo ша<! :i;ss near allied." And again — " A daring pilot In extremity....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...

...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...

...for a calm," and not one that would " steer too near the shore to show his wit," any more than, like "a daring pilot in extremity," — " Pleased with the danger when the waves run high, He scmght the deep." His was a compromising spirit, much more resembling the character of...

...for a calm," and not one that would " steer too near the shore to show his wit," any more than, like "a daring pilot in extremity," — " Pleased with the danger when the waves run high, Ho sought the deop." His was a compromising spirit, much more resembling the character of...

...martial law. His less scrupulous successor, Lord Shaftesbury, A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms, commenced his administration by issuing writs of his own authority for the election of new members...

...amounting to temerity, are the most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wit? lo mat? inns near allied." And again — "A daring pilot In extremity....storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the saride lo bout big wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, expiai» this discrepancy. The...

...turbulent of wit ; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A daring pilot in extremity; . Pleased with the danger when the waves ran high, He sought the storm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too near the sand» to boast his...