 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 Seiten
...daring pilot In extremity. Pleased with the danger when the waves went higa, He sought the storing ; but for a calm unfit. Would steer too nigh the sands to bout hi« wit."* The dates of the two poems will, we think, expiais this discrepancy. The third part... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 444 Seiten
...near allied." And again — " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." l 1 It has never, we believe, been remarked, that two of the most stnKmg lines in the description of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 Seiten
...allied." And again — • " A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger when the waves went high, He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit." l 'It has never, we believe, been remarked, that two of the most striking lines in the description... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...To raise up Common-wealths and ruine Kings. (1. 79-84) 2 Great Wits are sure to Madness near alli'd -54) CMoP; LiTA; LiTM; MoAB; MoAmPo; MoBS; OFD; PoRA;...follmving 3 poems) 5 But first Elpenor came, our friend E (1. 163-166) 3 Nor let his Love enchant your generous Mind; 'Tis Natures trick to propagate her Kind.... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 Seiten
...informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John E. Nelson - 1994 - 472 Seiten
...favor of theory alone. The English poet John Dryden reflected this popular viewpoint when he wrote: Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. We may wonder if Shakespeare was speaking from experience when he wrote in A Midsummer Night's Dream:... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Professor Roger Poole, Roger Poole - 1995 - 324 Seiten
...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... | |
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Pleased with the danger, when the 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 And thin partitions do their bounds divide... 
