 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 str.
...recognizes genius. ARTHUR CONAN, SIR DOYLE, (1859-1930) British author. The Valley of Fear, ch. 1 (1915). 6 Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. JOHN DRYDEN, (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist, critic. Absalom and Achitophel, pt. 1,1. 163^1(1681).... | |
 | Gregory Maertz - 1998 - 280 str.
...territory. The dangerous proximity prompted John Dryden's well-known couplet on the Earl of Shaftesbury: "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide" (Absalom and Achitophel, 163-64). Prior to the eighteenth century, the furor poeticus was posited in... | |
 | Noel L. Brann - 2002 - 530 str.
...reaffirmed by John Dryden in the asseveration contained in his Absalom and Architophel (I, 163) that "great wits are sure to madness near allied, /And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Putting the same notion into prose form in the following century, Denis Diderot exulted at the pinnacle... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 str.
...high 160 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 blessed, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 str.
...touchstone of a man of wit." — Moliere "Melancholy men of all others are most witty." — Aristotle "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide." — John Dryden "A man who has provoked the shaft of wit cannot complain that he smart from it." —... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 str.
...160 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... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 str.
...which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay 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? This character assassination — Shaftesbury is a... | |
 | David Semple - 2005 - 988 str.
...these were the figures that epitomised in the public mind the archetypal union of madness and genius. 'Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide' wrote Dryden, while in a IT^-century etching, Melancolicus proclaims 'the price of wisdom is melancholy'.... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 str.
...high He sought the Storms; but for a Calm unfit, Would steer too near 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 blessed, Refuse his Age the needful Hours of Rest? Punish a Body which he could not please; Bankrupt... | |
 | Brian M. Stableford - 2006 - 758 str.
...Shakespeare's grouping of "the lunatic, the lover and the poet" and John Dryden's observation that "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, /And thin partitions do their bounds divide" (1681) — is tantamount to an affirmation that some aberrations from the norm are socially and existentially... | |
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