 | David Masson - 1856 - 494 페이지
...the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would...allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Or, in the lines which he sent to Tonson the publisher as a specimen of what he could do in the way... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 페이지
...o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went 1 He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wi Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 페이지
...its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er informed the tenement of clay. Part i. Line 163.. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Part i. Line 169. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing,... | |
 | Caleb Williams - 1856 - 152 페이지
...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 - 428 페이지
...the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves went high He sought the storms, but for a calm unfit, "Would...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... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1857 - 692 페이지
...crown forego." 17. " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleas' d with the danger when the waves ran high, He sought the storms, but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit." 18. " Sunk were his eyes, his voice was harsh and loud, Sure signs he neither choleric was, nor proud... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 336 페이지
...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 - 264 페이지
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 페이지
...allied." And again — "A daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. saride lo bout big wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, expiai» this discrepancy. The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 페이지
...up the 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... | |
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Pleased 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. And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he,... 
