 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 sider
...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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 sider
...high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, AVould steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.' Or, in the lines which he sent to Tonson the publisher as a specimen of what he could do in the way... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1869 - 402 sider
...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... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 sider
...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... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 sider
...mery summeres day. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (Cloudy with fog patches early on; clearing later in the day!) Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. JOHN DRYDEN A neat couplet. And how comforting for those of us who are not that brilliant! But far... | |
 | Robert Elliott Allinson - 1989 - 224 sider
...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... | |
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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? 
