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
| Cassell, ltd - 1869 - 402 páginas
...about him, who are too lethargic, apathetic, or stupid to feel as he does. John Uryden has said — " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Still there is no true connection between wit and madness. Shakespeare, though he seemed to have the... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 páginas
...its way, Fretted, the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. part \. Line 156. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.* Part i. Line 163. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing,... | |
| Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 páginas
...indifferently, and might have convinced the authors, that the charm of " Absalom and Achitophel " lav 1 f " 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... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 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... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 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 blesl, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest •I Punish... | |
| Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 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 honours blest. Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 páginas
...went 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 honors blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 páginas
...before that good-for-nothing court — literally casting his " pearls before swine : " " Great wits arc sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." " But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land." " Beware... | |
| Robert Elliott Allinson - 1989 - 224 páginas
...remark is so shocking that it does full justice to his mental condition. We are reminded of Dryden's, "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide." The madman is spontaneity personified. Even more than die cripple, he can get away with saying what... | |
| Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 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 honor blessed, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish... | |
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