well-staid

Updated: May 16, 2025

I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much then, but to ride out in companies with prudent and well-staid guides, to all quarters of the land, etc. Many other passages might be quoted, in which the poet breaks through the groundwork of prose, as it were, by natural fecundity and a genial, unrestrained sense of delight.

William Hazlitt - Table Talk : Essays on Men and Manners