 | Caleb Williams - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...and rendered confinement necessary for the sake of themselves and of others. If it be true, that " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide," it will be admitted that great depravity stands very much in the same relation to madness. Indeed,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...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. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule th« state. To compass this the... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...unceremoniously purloined as Seneca. From him Dryden has adopted the first line of the well-known couplet : — " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." And from Dryden, Pope has transferred the last line to his " Essay on Man," thus : — " What thin... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...versus fecit . Satirically made a synonyme for insanit. Cp. Ars Poet. 296. Dryden's lines are famous : Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Absalom and Ahithopbel. (operis dandis, Cic. Farad, vi.; U understood by many in this sense ; though... | |
 | 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 682
...extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru. (5.) None but the brave deserves 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...rear. He sought the storms ; hat, 'or a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the saz*ds to hoast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their hounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour hleat, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...altogether incompatible with intermissions of extraordinary brightness. Dryden has sung with nervous truth : Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. And, in the masterly satire whence these lines are quoted, how truly are insane workings portrayed... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...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 1 Punish... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, f 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, Befuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punioh... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...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... | |
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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? 
