 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
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits6 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; 1 Johnson. " Lives of the Poets." 8 From the Satire of "Absalom and Achitophel" — considered by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast hid wit. le smoothness, to paint out and describe. Teaching over the whole book o bouuds divide;* Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...went high He sought the storm ; 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. Give the exact meaning of the words "fretted" — " o'er-informed" — " wit" — and " great wits."... | |
 | 1850 - 524 páginas
...Conquest of Grenada. " And whistled as he went for want of thought." DRTDKN'S Cymon and Iphigenia, " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." DRYDEN'S Absalom and Achitophcl, St. i. 1. 163. " The tenth transmitter of a foolish face." — SAVAGE.... | |
 | 1857 - 498 páginas
...may allow it ; genius, whether in the natural or the supernatural order, looks very like folly — " Great wits are, sure, to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Saints have prayed to become fools for the love of God, as He became, as it were, a fool for love of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. now seein Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ! Punish... | |
 | 1850 - 544 páginas
...Conquest of Grenada. " And whistled as he went for wnnt of thought." Pi: v 1.1 N Cymon and Iphigenia. * Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." DRYDEN'S Absalom and Achitojihct, st. i, 1. 163. '• The tenth transmitter of a foolish face." —... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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 1 Punish... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 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 7 Punish... | |
 | John Dryden - 1852 - 378 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... | |
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