 | Ikabāla Kaura - 1992 - 196 Seiten
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 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 Seiten
...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 honor blessed, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | 2005 - 312 Seiten
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 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 Seiten
...recognizes genius. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930). English author. The Valley of Fear, ch. 1 (1915). 17 Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700). English poet, dramatist, critic. Absj/om and Achitophel, pi. I . 18 Genius... | |
 | Bertram Wyatt-Brown - 1994 - 140 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Barnard - 1994 - 248 Seiten
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 | Margaret A. Boden - 1996 - 260 Seiten
...respect to certain personality traits, but certainly does not claim identity; it agrees with Dryden that "great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide." This puts the case very neatly; not identity, but "near alliance," with their bounds being divided... | |
 | Erica Jong - 1994 - 360 Seiten
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 | Joel Conarroe - 1994 - 344 Seiten
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