 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...brings a man to hanging, That goes not further than a harmless banging. Buekingham. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body whieh he eould not please ! Bankrupt of life, yet prodigaJ of ease ? And all to leave what with his... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 864 pages
...Quote Pope's lines on his death. Why was Dryden especially bitter against him ? 1 2. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...bounds divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honor blest, Eefuse his age the needful hours of rest ? Punish a body which he could not please, Bankrupt... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits5 are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. In friendship false, implacable in hate ; • Resolved to ruin... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. (Jn.-at wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...not please ; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease J And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that uflfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest 1 Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt...leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. Drydtn. CCCCXCVIL The world is so full of ill-nature, that I have lampoons... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...he buys a seat in parliament, and studies the constitution. — Machenzie. ccccxcvt. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour bless'd, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest '! Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wi Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do...divide ; Else why should he, with wealth and honour b] Refuse his age the needful hours of rest ^ Punish a body which he could not please ; Bankrupt of... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pages
...and his family, in the character of Achitophel : — ' Else why should he, with wealth and honours blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish...could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of case. And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two legg'd thing, a son.' A new... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...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 partitions do...he won, To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son ; Got, while his soul did huddled notions try ; And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...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 partitions do...And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son ? " Halifax, known as the "Trimmer," who defeated the Exclusion... | |
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And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went 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... 
