 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 too nigh the sands to boast his wit.  Waverley Novels: Vol. 6 - עמוד 522מאת Walter Scott - 1844 - 617 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 דפים
...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 too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 דפים
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed its 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 too nigh the sands, to boast his... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 דפים
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed its 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 too nigh the sands to show his wit.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 92 דפים
...courses and dangerous experiments in legislation. It was not of such as he that Dryden wrote — " A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storm, but for a culm unfit Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 דפים
...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 too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1870 - 88 דפים
...eccentric courses and dangerous experiments in legislation. It was not of such as he that Dryden wrote — "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."... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1871 - 500 דפים
...have found in Zetland." " Well, Fowd," continued Halcro, " I undertook to carry him to Fitful Head in my little boat, which Giles and I can manage as...for a calm unfit, Will steer too near the sands, to show my wit." " " I showed little wit in entrusting myself to your charge," said Triptolemus ; " and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 דפים
...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 when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1871 - 604 דפים
...prominence to ' his violent passion, implacable revenge, and boldness amounting to temerity : ' — ' A daring pilot in extremity Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, Ho sought the storms : hut, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 דפים
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body g to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clayv / A daring pilot in extremity, ' Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, loo He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast... | |
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