...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the "great wits to madness near allied." And again — x "A daring pilot in extremity. Pleased with the danger...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." * ' The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The third part of Hudibras...

...most striking features. Ahithopel is one of the " great wits to madness near allied." And again — "A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, explain this discrepancy. The third part of Hudibras appeared...

...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 high, He sought...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest 1 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease1 And all to leave...

...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 high, He sought...honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest 7 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave...

...most striking features. Ahithophel is one of the " great wits tc madness near allied." And again — 'A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger...for a calm unfit. Would steer too nigh the sands to boait bis wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think. explain this discrepancy. The third part...

...of his career. Quote Pope's lines on his death. Why was Dryden especially bitter against him ? 1 2. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin...bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt...

...Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; [high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit,...divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour Refuse his age the needful hours of rest Î [blest, Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt...

...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...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boost his wit. Great wit» are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...

...respects, in a new light in the world. They will show that he had no A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought...his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made at Dover for the interests of popery ; that Charles first...

...which worketh 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...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to Ijoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...