...working out its way Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. ***** 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...

...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...

...Seneca, borrowing the thought from Aristotle, says: "Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae ;" which Dryden paraphrases thus, with a qualification...Virgil, though sometimes confounded with him) goes farther ; he asserts positively : " Id commune malum, semel insanavimus omnes " — it is a common...

...mgeniuru sine mixtura deinentise ;" which Dryden paraphrases thus, with a qualification : " Great wits arc sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...he asserts positively — " Id commune malum, semel insanaviinus omnes :" — It is a common ill that we have all been mad at some time or other. On the...

...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...

...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"...

...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 honours blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish...

...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...

...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...

...high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unlit, 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...