 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1870 - 292 pages
...crystalline sphere whose balance weighs The trepidation talked, and that first moved. (c) Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. (/) Far from the sun and summer glade To him the mighty mother did unvail Her awful face. (g) Tis the... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1870 - 280 pages
...present before the eye and more firmly fixed in the recollection of the reader, than * " Grcut wits arc sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." M. Taine seeiue not to have known Drydcn's lines.—(To.) those which it describes. The old house,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...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, 165 Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 pages
...there no black and white ? Grown into a proverb almost is that couplet of Dryden's : Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. And Father Prout observes that to fix the precise limits where sober reason's well-regulated dominions... | |
 | John Dryden - 1871 - 380 pages
...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, 165 Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...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 f Punish... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 pages
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pages
...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 l^tat, 165 Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?... | |
 | Maggie (fict.name.) - 1871 - 310 pages
...geniuses— two words, by-the-bye, that are partly synonymous. As Dryden says : — , ' ' Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. " We might all be geniuses at this rate, only that most of us control these ideacal monsters and rub... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...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... | |
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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? 
