...hang on the simple thread of a phrenological subdivision ? May Dryden's couplet — " Great wit is sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide" — • be specially applied to Irishmen ? and must we be content to prove a pendant to the truism...

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...offered her every thing at the table, renders this suspicion of mine indisputable.' Lord SouthGreat wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions...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...

...indifferently, and might have convinced the authors, that the charm of " Absalom and Achitophel " lay 1 [." Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin...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...

...authors, that the charm of " Absalom and Achitophel " lay 1 [ " Great wita are sure to madnessnear allied. And thin partitions do their 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...

...pretend to deny that there may be some foundation for Dryden's celebrated dictum — ' Great wit is sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ;' and we shall by and by have occasion to touch on that interesting subject ; here we are only observing...

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