 | Robert Elliott Allinson - 1989 - Počet stránok 224
...remark is so shocking that it does full justice to his mental condition. We are reminded of Dryden's, "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide." The madman is spontaneity personified. Even more than die cripple, he can get away with saying what... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Počet stránok 1172
...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; TrCP; TrGrPo CANTOS (the follmvin blest, Refuse his Age the needful hours of Rest? (1. 163-166) 3 Nor let his Love enchant your generous... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - Počet stránok 514
...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...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 - Počet stránok 1214
...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 - Počet stránok 260
...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... | |
 | Bertram Wyatt-Brown - 1994 - Počet stránok 140
...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... | |
 | John E. Nelson - 1994 - Počet stránok 472
...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:... | |
 | Roger Poole - 1995 - Počet stránok 324
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Keates - 1996 - Počet stránok 332
...disdain for that rationality to which the contemporary ethos increasingly clung. Dryden's famous lines: Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide may have achieved cliche status since they were written, but their implication for Purcell's age was... | |
 | R.F Mould - 1996 - Počet stránok 518
...Pope must have known someone like this when he penned those immortal lines in his Essay on Criticism: 'Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide'. Here indeed is a great wit. On health: 'Muddy' look could indicate changes in the writer's emotional... | |
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