 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...  Art Notes - Página 311por Macbeth Gallery - 1896Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 páginas
...natural pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 páginas
...natural pretensions -r-thc lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 páginas
...natural pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 páginas
...pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. 78 SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 páginas
...natural pretensions — the lean and meager figure of your insignificant essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 páginas
...natural pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 páginas
...natural pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...wits, Sjc.~~ Sir 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 Shakspeare. The greatness of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests... | |
 | 1847 - 606 páginas
...The Sanity of True Genius." " So far from the position holding true," he says, " that great wit (for genius in our modern way of speaking,) has a necessary...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
...True 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.... | |
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