 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 356 ページ
...high, lie sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, t 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 be, with wwnlth and ho»a«r Most, Ki fuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Puuisb a body which... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 ページ
...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And tliin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest 1 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
 | 1863 - 744 ページ
...Nulluin magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementire ;" which Dryden paraphrases thus, with a qualification : " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Mantuanus (not Virgil, though sometimes confounded with him) goes further ; he asserts positively —... | |
 | 1863 - 568 ページ
..."Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae ;" which Dryden paraphrases thus, with a qualification : " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Mantuanus (not Virgil, though sometimes confounded with him) goes farther ; he asserts positively :... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 ページ
...high , He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to hoast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do Iheir boir.ids dmde; Else why should lie, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the ueedfut... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 732 ページ
...mgeniuru sine mixtura deinentise ;" which Dryden paraphrases thus, with a qualification : " Great wits arc sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Mantuanus (not Virgil, though sometimes confounded with him) goes further ; he asserts positively —... | |
 | Robert Hunter - 1863 - 298 ページ
...great intellect under the designation of great wit, one of the English poets says, — " <ireat wit is sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide." In this case the partitions seem somehow to have got knocked through, leaving the "wit" and the "madness"... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 ページ
...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...bounds divide : Else, why should he, with wealth and honours blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ;... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 ページ
...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 ; Eke why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 ページ
...disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; * Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. BRYDEN, ante, p. 139, " Nullum mngnum ingenium sine mixtura demcntite fuit." Seneca, Du TranqniUilate... | |
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... 
