 So far from the position holding true, that great wit (or genius, in our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits, on the contrary, will ever be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to...  The Pathology of Mind - Página 302por Henry Maudsley - 1886 - 580 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 páginas
...SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great wit (or genius, in our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity,...contrary, will ever be found to be the sanest writers. Is it possible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatest wit, by which the poetic... | |
 | 1847 - 606 páginas
...Genius." " So far from the position holding true," he says, " that great wit (for genius in our modern way of speaking,) has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits on the contrary will even be found to be the sanest writers." It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare.... | |
 | 1847 - 602 páginas
...Genius." " So far from the position holding true," he says, " that great wit (for genius in onr modern way of speaking.) has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits on the contrary will even he fonnd to he the sanest writers." It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare.... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 490 páginas
...SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great wit (or genius, in our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity,...be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible foi the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here... | |
 | 1854 - 526 páginas
...True Genins," says : " So far from the position holding true that great wit (or genins, in our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits have ever been the sanest wnters. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 páginas
...True Genius," says : " So far from the position holding true that great wit (or genius, m our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits have ever been the sanest writers. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 páginas
...SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great wit (or genius, in our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity,...be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible foi the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by, which the poetic talent is... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 páginas
...SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great wit (01 genius, in our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity,...be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible fot the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 páginas
...wits, &c. — Charles Lamb thus controverts the above position : — " The greatest wits," says he, "will ever be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Stnkspere. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 páginas
...movements and peculiarities is full of interest. "So far from the position holding true, that great wit has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits, on the contrary, will even be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare.... | |
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