 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. espied an old man stopping and leaning on his staff,...with age and travel, coming towards him, who won a blot, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest I Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast hid wit. le smoothness, to paint out and describe. Teaching over the whole book o bouuds divide;* Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...went high He sought the storm ; 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. Give the exact meaning of the words "fretted" — " o'er-informed" — " wit" — and " great wits."... | |
 | 1904 - 668 pages
...little more than that "'twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee." JOHN T. CURRY. Dryden qualifies it thus : — Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. ' Absalom and Achitophel,' i. 163-4. WFH King, in his ' Classical Quotations,' says that Seneca quotes... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thiu f her own. The picture of a lady seen by her lover — My Infelice's face, her blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest I Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. now seein blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ! Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | 1857 - 498 pages
...may allow it ; genius, whether in the natural or the supernatural order, looks very like folly — " Great wits are, sure, to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Saints have prayed to become fools for the love of God, as He became, as it were, a fool for love of... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pages
...Conquest of Grenada. " And whistled as he went for wnnt of thought." Pi: v 1.1 N Cymon and Iphigenia. * Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." DRYDEN'S Absalom and Achitojihct, st. i, 1. 163. '• The tenth transmitter of a foolish face." —... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...Conquest of Grenada. " And whistled as he went for want of thought." DRTDKN'S Cymon and Iphigenia, " Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." DRYDEN'S Absalom and Achitophcl, St. i. 1. 163. " The tenth transmitter of a foolish face." — SAVAGE.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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 1 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
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