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, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age... The Literature of Society - Página 30por Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Barnard - 1994 - 248 páginas
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| Bertram Wyatt-Brown - 1994 - 140 páginas
...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1995 - 618 páginas
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| Professor Roger Poole, Roger Poole - 1995 - 324 páginas
...being baffled by his own evidence, and come to the conclusion that Dryden was right when he wrote: Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. The judgement, in its curiously deliberate (self-imposed) insensitivity, does form a part of the larger... | |
| Natalie Angier - 1995 - 308 páginas
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| James Riordan - 1995 - 616 páginas
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| Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 680 páginas
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| Jonathan Keates - 1996 - 332 páginas
...disdain for that rationality to which the contemporary ethos increasingly clung. Dryden's famous lines: Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide may have achieved cliche status since they were written, but their implication for Purcell's age was... | |
| R.F Mould - 1996 - 518 páginas
...Pope must have known someone like this when he penned those immortal lines in his Essay on Criticism: 'Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide'. Here indeed is a great wit. On health: 'Muddy' look could indicate changes in the writer's emotional... | |
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