| Richard Sinclair Brooke - 1877 - 264 σελίδες
...perverseness, or a desire to be out of the way original, or, like the crafty one of whom Dryden sang, " A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storm — but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit," I cannot say, but... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 898 σελίδες
...passion, implacable revenge, boldness amounting to temerity, arc the most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the "great wits to madness near allied." And again — "A darinp pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the wave* went high, Ho sought the storms :... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 604 σελίδες
...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."... | |
| 1877 - 790 σελίδες
...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 were high, He sought the storms, but for a calm unfit, He steered too near the sands, to show his wit... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 162 σελίδες
...passion, implacable revenge, boldness amounting to temerity, are the most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the "great wits to madness near allied."...storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the samls to boast his wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The... | |
| John Dryden - 1878 - 368 σελίδες
...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, 160 He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, \ Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.... | |
| James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 σελίδες
...like one pursued. The farther I was from the occasion of my fright, the greater my apprehensions were. Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, he sought the storms. 77. (§ 95.) In the following sentences read out the conditional or modifying sentence, and say if... | |
| 1878 - 646 σελίδες
...condition of things best suited to Lord Palmerston's genius. ' A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms ; bat, for a calm unfit. Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.' Over and over again he brought... | |
| Walter Scott - 1879 - 464 σελίδες
...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.'... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 σελίδες
...passion, implacable revenge, boldness amounting to temerity, are the most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the "great wits to madness near allied."...waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a ontin unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."* • It hu never, we believe, been remarked,... | |
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