 | John Bell - 1791 - 270 oldal
...for your cure. Tor. I cannot, nay, I wish not to be cur'd. Qu. [Aside.] Nor I, Heav'n knows ! Tor. There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know I Let me indulge it ; let me gaze for ever I And, since you are too great to be belov'd, Be greater,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 500 oldal
...for your cure. Tor. I cannot, nay, I wish not to be cured. Leo. [Aside.] Nor I, heaven knows ! Tor. There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know ! Let me indulge it ; let me gaze for ever ! And, since you are too great to be beloved, Be greater,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 oldal
...your cure. Tor. I cannot, nay, I wish not to be cured. Qu. (/I sat <. \ Nor I, Heaven knows ! Tar. There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know ! Let me indulge it ; let me gaze for ever ! And since you are too great to be beloved, Be greater,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 690 oldal
...for your cure. Tor. I cannot, nay, I wish not to be cured. Qu. [Aside.] Nor I, Heaven knows ! Tor. There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know ! Let me indulge it ; let me gaze for ever ! And since you are too great to be beloved, Be greater,... | |
 | 1882 - 870 oldal
...know," — cited by Mi Keightley as having resemblance to these from Dryden's " Spanish Friar : "— " There is a pleasure sure in being mad, Which none but madmen know," that remind us that that gentleman gives from his own experience an instance of unconscious likeness,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 oldal
...clad in green, Which none but green-men know. The passage in view, if I am correct in it, is this: There is a pleasure sure in being mad, Which none but madmen know. Wlialey solus. but chief, of thee *, Of thee I most complain, O want of meal. #####** Must I then leave... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 522 oldal
...for your cure. Tor. I cannot, nay, 1 wish not to be cured. Leo. [Aside.] Nor I, heaven knows ! Tor. There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know ! Let me indulge it ; let me gaze for ever ! And, since you are too great to be beloved, Be greater,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 oldal
...and beauteous Greece ; And the great queen of earth, imperial Rome. Dyer's Ruins of Rome. M. MADNESS. There is a pleasure sure in being mad, Which none but madmen know. Dry den's Spanish Friar. He raves, his words are loose As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1831 - 580 oldal
...to madness in general, but I shall take the liberty of making use of them for my present purpose. -" There is a pleasure sure in being mad, Which none but madmen know." I have the honour to be acquainted with a gentleman of this happy turn of mind, and it has carried... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1838 - 456 oldal
...Fortunately perhaps for the patient, it is an incurable malady, illustrating the lines of Dryden, " There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad, Which none but madmen know." If we admit this state of ecstasy to be a mental aberration, it is surely of an enviable nature, since... | |
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