 | W. P. Frith - 2006 - 532 Seiten
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 | Brian M. Stableford - 2006 - 758 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower - 2006 - 460 Seiten
...context, as it often was from the seventeenth century onwards, it suggested a different meaning. Dryden's Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide, and even Schopenhauer's 'genius is nearer to madness than the average intelligence' echo the misinterpreted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 2006 - 420 Seiten
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 | the late Abraham Pais - 2006 - 397 Seiten
...in turn told it to me.) That behavior brings to mind the lines by the poet John Dryden (1631-1670): Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. While in Europe, Oppenheimer sought help of at least two psychiatrists: In June of 1926 [he told an... | |
 | Colin Pritchard - 2006 - 310 Seiten
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 | Edmund Gosse - 2006 - 332 Seiten
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 | Ahmed Hussain - 2006 - 100 Seiten
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide... 
