 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1815 - 314 pages
...fenfe. So much is this the cafe, that the poet has been often cited with approbation, who -fays, • . " Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do thoir bounds divide." It is common to fay, that fuch a man has more fail than ballaft, meaning that... | |
 | John Struthers - 1822 - 276 pages
...be there to see. * The facetious History of John Gilpia" Illustrates most forrlWy The adage of the poet, Great wit to madness sure is near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide. and proves to a demonstration that melancholy and mirth are, frequently, if not inmates, very near... | |
 | Henry Angelo - 1830 - 564 pages
...only did know his notes, but could accompany a slow movement of JS8 GENIUS. the harpsichord, both ou the fiddle and the flute, with taste and feeling....trust the reader will not consider me too garrulous, CARLISLE HOt'SE. 189 now that I am growing a greybeard, if I dedicate a few more pages to his memory.... | |
 | Hugh Moore - 1831 - 528 pages
...some tincture of madness." This assertion, which is certainly too general, Dryden thus qualifies : " Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." — MD 2834. Nullum magnum malum quod extremum est. (Lat.) — " That evil which is the last we are... | |
 | 1832 - 282 pages
...up the reputation of that Latin proverb, which Mr. Dryden has translated in the folio wing, lines: ' Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide..' My reader does, I hope, perceive that 1 distinguish a man who is absent, because he thinks of something... | |
 | 1836 - 332 pages
...keep up the reputation of the Latin proverb, which Mr. Dryden has translated in the following lines : Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. My reader does, I hope, perceive that I distinguish a man who is absent because he thinks of something... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1850 - 432 pages
...was deranged in his intellects, and became convinced of the truth of the sentiment in the lines — Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. The next day, when we met, Byron said that he had received a satisfactory explanation from Mr. Hill,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1851 - 254 pages
...was deranged in his intellects, and became convinced of the truth of the sentiment in the lines — Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. The next day, when we met, Byron said that he had received a satisfactory explanation from Mr. Hill,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...up the reputation of that Latin proverb, which Mr. Drydeii has translated in the following lines: ' Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.' My reader does, I hope, perceive that 1 distinguish a man who is absent, because he thinks of something... | |
 | Greek - 1859 - 568 pages
...This assertion is, perhaps, too broad and general : it is thus properly qualified by DRYDEN : — " Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Nullum magnum malum quod extremum est. Lat. CORNELIUS NEPOS. — " That evil can never be great which... | |
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I now understood how likely his manner was, under any violent excitement, to give rise to the idea that he was deranged in his intellects, and became convinced of the truth of the sentiment in the lines — Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And... 
