 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 페이지
...allied." And again — " A daring pilot in extremity, 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." * * It has never, we belteve, been re- ltnes tn the descrtptton of Ahtthophel marked, that two of the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 446 페이지
...the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'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 bcfest his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin paititions do their bounds divide;... | |
 | Henry Thomas Riley - 1866 - 572 페이지
...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. — "... | |
 | William Franklin Gore Shanks - 1866 - 376 페이지
...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... | |
 | Robert Elliott Allinson - 1989 - 224 페이지
...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... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 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...bounds divide: Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blessed, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 페이지
...recognizes genius. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930). English author. The Valley of Fear, ch. 1 (1915). 17 Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700). English poet, dramatist, critic. Absj/om and Achitophel, pi. I . 18 Genius... | |
 | Margaret A. Boden - 1996 - 260 페이지
...respect to certain personality traits, but certainly does not claim identity; it agrees with Dryden that "great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide." This puts the case very neatly; not identity, but "near alliance," with their bounds being divided... | |
 | John E. Nelson - 1994 - 472 페이지
...favor of theory alone. The English poet John Dryden reflected this popular viewpoint when he wrote: Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. We may wonder if Shakespeare was speaking from experience when he wrote in A Midsummer Night's Dream:... | |
 | Bertram Wyatt-Brown - 1994 - 140 페이지
...popular myths or poetic conceits about such a connection have a validity which is hard to challenge. "Great wits are sure to madness near allied; / and thin partitions do their bounds divide," wrote John Dryden, versifying the notion in the seventeenth century. "Study after study," reported... | |
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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,... 
