 He sought the storms; but, for a calm 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 he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful...  The Roxburghe Ballads - Page 6591883Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...daring pilot in extremity; r& Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high Hejsought the storm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands...boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast bis wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their hounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour hlcss'd, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with thedaiigeVu hen the waveswenthigh, lie ionght the sire ? Why drew Marseilles' good bishop purer honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please -,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms: but, for a cairn unlit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Rise why should he, with wealth and honour blest,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide : * For the superintendence of his grandson's early education the old gentleman fixed upon a learned... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...extremity i Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went He sought the stormsi but, for a ealm uuIit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide i Rise why should he, with wealth and honour bits' Refuse his age the needful hours of rest' Punish... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and ho* nour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 580 pages
...hang on the simple thread of a phrenological subdivision ? May Dryden's couplet — " Great wit is sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide" — • be specially applied to Irishmen ? and must we be content to prove a pendant to the truism... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...pigmy body to decay, And o'er-iriform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought...partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he,with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm un6t, b )>x 8ow~ vݑg | 5 ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest,... | |
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