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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 97
by John Timbs - 1829 - 360 pages
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Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John Forster

1839 - 466 pages
...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...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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The Falls of Niagara: Or Tourist's Guide to this Wonder of Nature, Including ...

Samuel De Veaux - 1839 - 182 pages
...not wonderful, that in beholding the general infatuation, he, too, should become beside himself. " Great wits are, sure, to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide,'* Ratllbun— his fall. His own schemes of ambition were boundless, and, besides, he had the visionary...
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The Falls of Niagara: Or Tourist's Guide to this Wonder of Nature, Including ...

Samuel De Veaux - 1839 - 174 pages
...that in beholding the general infatuation, he, too, should become beside himself. " Great wits arc, sure, to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide," Rathbun — his fall. His own schemes of ambition were boundless, and, besides, he had the visionary...
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The Table Talker: Or, Brief Essays on Society and Literature, Volume 2

Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pages
...were 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...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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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...high, He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. ndering at their height through airy channels Still to new blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 72

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 714 pages
...intellect are not only unimpaired, but frequently of the highest and brightest order. ' Great wit is sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.' So sang Dryden ; and a long list of illustrious eccentrics might be produced to support his theory....
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Y Traethodydd, Volume 62

1907 - 516 pages
...belong." Gelwir hi weithiau yn wallgofrwydd dwyfol, a cheir gan Dryden y bardd y geiriau adnabyddus : " Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.'1 Deil Lombroso ac eraill fod cysylltiad tra agos rhwng athrylith a gwallgofrwydd — lien...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits6 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; 1 Johnson. " Lives of the Poets." 8 From the Satire of "Absalom and Achitophel" — considered by...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are 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...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to show his wit. Great wits to madness surely are allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ;* Else, why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ; Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt...
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