 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1858 - 264 páginas
...versus fecit . Satirically made a synonyme for insanit. Cp. Ars Poet. 296. Dryden's lines are famous : Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Absalom and Ahithopbel. (operis dandis, Cic. Farad, vi.; U understood by many in this sense ; though... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show hi* wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...needful hours of rest ; Punish a body which he could not pi ease, Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of case, And all to leave what with such toil he won, To that... | |
 | 1859 - 682 páginas
...extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru. (5.) None but the brave deserves the fair. (6.) Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide, (7.) For why ? the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 páginas
...rear. He sought the storms ; hat, 'or a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the saz*ds to hoast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their hounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour hleat, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | Arthur Lloyd Windsor - 1860 - 428 páginas
...his best friends." Achitophel is — "In friendship false, implacable in hate." Achitophel does — " Refuse his age the needful hours of rest, Punish a body which he could not please." In Shaftesbury — " 'Twere crime in any man but him alone, To use a body so, though 'tis one's own."... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 302 páginas
...altogether incompatible with intermissions of extraordinary brightness. Dryden has sung with nervous truth : Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. And, in the masterly satire whence these lines are quoted, how truly are insane workings portrayed... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 páginas
...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...bounds divide: Else, why should he, with wealth and honours blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest 1 Punish a body which he could not please,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 páginas
...high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, f Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin...bounds divide, Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Befuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punioh a body which he could not please. Bankrupt... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 páginas
...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...bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest '! Punish a body which he could not please ;... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 páginas
...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...bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, 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; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the... 
