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" A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd 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. "
The Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Page 130
de Samuel Johnson - 1779
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Poetical Miscellanies: Consisting of Original Poems and Translations

1714 - 528 pages
...working out its Way, > Fretted the Pigmy Body to Decay, \ And o'erinforrn'd the Tenement of Clay. J A daring Pilot in Extremity ; Pleas'd with the Danger, when the Waves went high, He fought the Storm ; but, for a Calm unfit, Would fteer too nigh the Sands, to boaft his Wit : O, why wou'd he,...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - 1760 - 448 pages
...pigmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'dwith the danger when the waves went high, He fought the ftorms ; but for a calm unfit, Would fteer too nigh the fands to boaft his wit. Great wits are fure to madnefs near ally'd, And thin partitions...
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The Lives of All the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire: Descended from the ...

Joseph Grove - 1764 - 506 pages
...working out its way, -j Fretted the pigmy-body to decay; f. And o'er inform'd the tenement cf clay. i A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger,...fands, to boaft his wit. Great wits are fure to madnefs nt'ar ally'd; And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Elle, why mould he, with wealth and honour...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1767 - 318 pages
...difgrace : A fie;^" . which working out its way, FrettiS 'u* pigmy-body to decay, And o\.e inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity...He fought the ftorm.s ; but for a calm unfit Would fteer too nigh the fands to boaft his wit. Great wits are fure to madnefs near ally'd, And thin partitions...
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Original Poems, Volume 1

John Dryden - 1773 - 260 pages
...unpleas'd, impatient of difgrace : A fiery foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay....the danger, when the waves went high, He fought the florm ; but, for a calm unfit, Would fteer too nigh the fands, to boaft his wit. Great wits are fure...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...dilgracc : A ticry foul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body to decay, And o'cr-inform'd wenthigh, He fought the ftorms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would ftcer too nigh the Hinds to boaft his...
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Dryden. Smyth. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 pages
...decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Plcas'd wit!i the dancer when the waves went high, He fought the ftorms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would fleer too nigh the fands (o loaft his wit. Great wits are fure to madnefs near aJly'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide;...
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ...

Horace Walpole - 1806 - 434 pages
...delivered to the Lord Fleetwood, owning their late Actions in endeavouring to secure A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy-body...Pleas'd 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." Absalom...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Collated with the Best Editions:

John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...working out its way, 1 Fretted the pigmy body to decay, > And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. J A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd 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. Great wits...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, ) Fretted (he pigmy body to-decay, I And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. \ A daring...extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves vent high, He sought the storms ; hut, for a Calm noil, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast Iii-...
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