...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...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to hoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do Iheir boir.ids dmde;...

...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,...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...

...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...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Eke why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish...

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

...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...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." * * It has never, we belteve, been re- ltnes tn the descrtptton of Ahtthophel marked, that two of the...

...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...storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh thn sands to boast his wit." * * It has never, we belieje, been re- lines in the description of Ahithophel...

...this Appendix will set his character, in several respects, in A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleas 'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought...unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. a new light in the world. They will show that he had no hand in the Duchess of Orleans's treaty, made...

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

...tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity ; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high lt*> He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would...Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, J65 Refqpe his age the needful hours of rest 1 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of...

...Dryden's celebrated character of the Earl of Shaftesbury, described in the person of Achitophel : — " Pleased with the danger, when the waves* went high,...storms : but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh thi- sands to boast his wit" On the same occasion the Earl of Derby declaimed that passage in Collins's...