...operations of our souls. Who does not know how indiscernable the difference is between folly with the gay * Great wits to madness, sure, are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Dryden. elevations of a mind that is uncontrolled, and the effects of a supreme and extraordinary virtue...

...concomitant of the " fine phrensy" of poesy, might be adduced from among the poets of every age : " Great wits to madness sure are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." It is this constant subserviency of many of the actions of a great genius, and of a fatuous or furious...

...of the " fine phrensy" of poesy, might be adduced from among the poets of every age : " Great nits to madness sure are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." i It is this constant subserviency of many of the actions of a great genius, and of a fatuous or furious...

...condition. Perhaps they were geniuses once ; and, if so, may serve to verify one couplet of Pope's : " Great wits to madness, sure, are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Their proceedings excited that kind of sympathy which sober men must feel, on seeing the inmates of...

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...precocity of intellect, with strong sexual appetite. He also confirms the truth of Dryden's dictum, that " Great wits to madness sure are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." It probably depends in no small degree upon external circumstances whether an individual shall turn...

...Democritus, quemquam poëtnm magnum ossc posse; quod idem dicit Plato (de divin. I, 37). Unb enbíid) fagt Great wits to madness sure are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide*). Sefonbcre iefyrretd) in btefer £infid)t ift ®oeti)e'« „ïorqtmto STaffo", in roetdjem et uno nid)!...

...blunted sense of pain and other evils, brings this disadvantage along with it, to render us, conse1 " Great wits to madness, sure, are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." 1 Tasso. 3 In November 1580. quently, less eager and sensible also in the fruition of goods and pleasures...

...praises. These are but types. The poet has incorporated the recognized principle in the lines, — " Great wits to madness, sure, are near allied, And thin partitions do their walls divide." It ia, however, only in the element of simple, undoubting faith, that the kinship of...

...too much. — Bacon. Some fitful tempers wince at every touch, You always do too little, or too much. Great wits to madness sure are near allied ; And thin partitions do their bounds divide. March 12. Who is the honest man ? He that doth still and strongly good pursue, To God, his neighbour,...