 Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?  Notes and Queries - Página 2121904Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 páginas
...high, He sought the storms; but, 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: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest; Punish... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 páginas
...high He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | 1821 - 800 páginas
...impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and ho* nour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | 1834 - 580 páginas
...hang on the simple thread of a phrenological subdivision ? May Dryden's couplet — " Great wit is sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide" — • be specially applied to Irishmen ? and must we be content to prove a pendant to the truism... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 páginas
...high He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he,with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...v. B He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 páginas
...he returns home, he buys a seat in Parliament, and studies the constitution. — Mackenzie. CCCCXCVL Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? • Punish... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...returns home, he buys a seat in Parliament, and studies the constitution. — Mackenzie. CCCCXCVI. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 páginas
...offered her every thing at the table, renders this suspicion of mine indisputable.' Lord SouthGreat wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else .why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 páginas
...indifferently, and might have convinced the authors, that the charm of " Absalom and Achitophel " lay 1 [." Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ; Punish... | |
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