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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 311
por Macbeth Gallery - 1896
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 16

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 648 páginas

...FALLACIES. That great vit is allied to madness. — So far from this being true, the greatest wits will ever be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare. The greatuess of wit, by which the poetic talent is here chiefly to be understood, manifests...

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