 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...natural pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...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 itself... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...natural pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...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 itself... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. 78 SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...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 itself... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...natural pretensions — the lean and meager figure of your insignificant essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...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 itself... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...natural pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...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 itself... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...natural pretensions — the lean and meagre figure of your insignificant Essayist. SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. So far from the position holding true, that great...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 itself... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...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 itself... | |
 | 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...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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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... 
