 | 1847 - 606 pages
...Cowley, speaking of a poetical friend : " So strong a wit did nature in him frame, As all things but bis judgment overcame ; His judgment, like the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty aea below." Our modern acceptation of the term ml is, however, susceptible of a somewhat different... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...stra..ning or excess of any one of them " So strong a wit," says Cowiey, speaking of a poetical friind, " Did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment...overcame ; His judgment like the heavenly moon did show, Tempermg that mighty sea below." The ground of the mistake is, that men, finding in the raptures of... | |
 | Suffolk Institute of Archaeology - 1859 - 514 pages
...notions throng About his eloquent tongue ; Nor could his iuk flow faster than his wit. So strong a wit did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment overcame ; His judgment like the heav'nly moon did show, Temp'ring that mighty sea below. OI had he lived in learning's world, what... | |
 | Bury & West Suffolk Archæological Institute - 1859 - 526 pages
...notions throng About his eloquent tongue ; Nor could his ink flow faster than his wit. So strong a wit did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment overcame ; His judgment like the heav'nly moon did show, Temp'ring that mighty sea below. O ! had be lived in learning's world, what... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...that are without, while the inhabitant site in darkness. Ilaiinah More. GENIUS-True. So strong a wit n, and faith ; and last Of all, there falls a kind...out of that sweet light In which we had our being. Caieley. GENIUS— Wives of Men of. There is an ordinance of nature at which men of genius are perpetually... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...excess of any one of them. " So strong a wit," says Cowley, speaking of a poetical friend, 11 did Natnre to him frame, As all things but his judgment overcame;...the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty Ma below." The ground of the mistake is, that men, finding in the raptures of the higher poetry a condition... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...straining or excess of any one of them '4 So strong a wit," says Cowley, speaking of a poetical friand, " Did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment...below." " The ground of the mistake is, that men, nnding in the raptures of the higher poetry a condition of exaltation to which they have no parallel... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...JUDGMENT. Men's judgments sway on that side fortune Inns. GEORGE CHAPMAN: WidmftTtm. So strong a wit did Nature to him frame As all things but his judgment...heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty sea below. COWLEY. If judgment could in solemn dulness lie, Which weaker rulers wear for gravity, Then those must... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 478 pages
...straining or excess of any one of them. " So strong a wit," says Cowley, speaking of a poetical friend, " did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment...show, Tempering that mighty sea below,." The ground of mistake is, that men, finding in the raptures of the higher poetry a condition of exaltation to which... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...JUDGMENT. Men's judgments sway on that side fortune leans. GEORGE CHAPMAN: Widvufs Tears. So strong a wit did Nature to him frame As all things but his judgment...heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty sea below. COWLEY. If judgment could in solemn dulness lie, Which weaker rulers wear for gravity, Then those must... | |
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The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests itself in the admirable balance of all the faculties. Madness is the disproportionate straining or excess of any one of them. 
