 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 pages
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went 1 He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wi Great... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1857 - 370 pages
...his refusal to seal a commission for 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...ordinaire; — l'un et l'autre (signe de bon jugement!) toujours dans l'excès, — si extrêmement vioA 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 hoast his wit. Great wits... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 pages
...which, working out its way. Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inl'orm'd the tenement of clay. 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 bcfest his wit. Great wits... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 356 pages
...•which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. 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... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 406 pages
...which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. 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... | |
 | 1878 - 646 pages
...the long peace, and peace was not the 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 pages
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. 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... | |
 | 1878 - 596 pages
...the long peace, and peace was not the condition of things best suited toLord Palmerston's genius. ' 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.' Over and... | |
 | 1878 - 596 pages
...the long peace, and peace was not the condition of things best suited toLord Palmerston's genius. ' A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves west high He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his... | |
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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. 
