 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...contempt by Dryden, in the passage following that already cited : " Great wits to madness surely are 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 a body, which he could not please,... | |
 | 1816 - 714 pages
...ally'd, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he, witb wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest-? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of lile, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won, T'i that unteuther'd, two-legg'd... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 pages
...waves went 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 : * For the superintendence of his grandson's early education the old gentleman fixed upon a learned... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...the waves went He sought the stormsi but, for a ealm uuIit, 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 i Rise why should he, with wealth and honour bits' Refuse his age the needful hours of rest' Punish... | |
 | 1821 - 778 pages
...allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and ho. nour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest, Punish a...could not please, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of case. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing — a son ;... | |
 | 1821 - 800 pages
...impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bonds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and ho* nour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | 1834 - 580 pages
...hang on the simple thread of a phrenological subdivision ? May Dryden's couplet — " Great wit is sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide" — • be specially applied to Irishmen ? and must we be content to prove a pendant to the truism... | |
 | 1822 - 314 pages
...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,...divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...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,...partitions do their bounds divide ; Else why should he,with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...went •VOL. v. B 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,...divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
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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... 
