 | 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 ページ
...extremity; Pleas'd with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unlit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 ページ
...; ' I'leas'd with the danger, when the waves went 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, hand in the Dnchess of Orleans's treaty, made at Dover for the interests of popery ; that Charles first... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 ページ
...extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru.' (6) ' None but the brave deserve the fair.' (6) ' Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. (7) ' For why ? the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1904 - 1214 ページ
...savant. MEDICAL RECORD. 171 maintain long a normal mental equilibrium must have been full when he wrote, "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide." The movement of evolutional tic is a muscular spasmodic or compelled movement, identical with a movement... | |
 | William Franklin Gore Shanks - 1866 - 376 ページ
...Dryden, seems to have encountered such madness as Sherman's, and to have appreciated the truth that " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Doubtless the same author had such a genius or madman as Sherman in his mind when he described one... | |
 | Henry Thomas Riley - 1866 - 572 ページ
...tincture of madness." It is a common saying, that every man is mad upon some point. Dryden says, " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." This was originally a saying of Aristotle. Nullum magnum malum quod extremum est. COEN. NEP. — "... | |
 | 1866 - 320 ページ
...of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. Conquest of Grenada. Act i. Scene I • Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do therr bounds divide.* Absalom and Achitophel. Part l. Lines 163, 164. A man so various that he seem'd... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 ページ
...waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to bcfest his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin paititions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age... | |
 | Robert Elliott Allinson - 1989 - 224 ページ
...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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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... 
