 | 1840 - 372 ページ
...danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too rrigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 ページ
...extremity ; Pleased with the daugerwhen the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, vers here forsake the fields below, [flow. And wondering...at their height through airy channels Still to new ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 ページ
...extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, big, stiff, and hy¡>erJsulinistic. He is a quiet...with a strong tinge of the fantast : the humorist ; * Klse why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest f Punish... | |
 | 1907 - 516 ページ
...belong." Gelwir hi weithiau yn wallgofrwydd dwyfol, a cheir gan Dryden y bardd y geiriau adnabyddus : " Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.'1 Deil Lombroso ac eraill fod cysylltiad tra agos rhwng athrylith a gwallgofrwydd — lien... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 ページ
...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 ページ
...went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast hid eatable 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 ページ
...extremity ; Pleased with the danger when the waves went high He sought the storm ; but for a calm unfit Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Give the exact meaning of the words "fretted" — " o'er-informed" — " wit" — and " great wits."... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 ページ
...extremity ; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, shape, a courtesan. Let her walk saint-like, noteless, and unknown, Yet she's betray'd by some t thiu partitions do their bounds divide ;* Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse... | |
 | 1904 - 668 ページ
...little more than that "'twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee." JOHN T. CURRY. Dryden qualifies it thus : — Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. ' Absalom and Achitophel,' i. 163-4. WFH King, in his ' Classical Quotations,' says that Seneca quotes... | |
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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... 
