The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth... The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 139by William Shakespeare - 1846Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 604 pages
...in the Palace of Theseus. Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTKATE, Lords, and Attendants. HIP. 'T is strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. THE....And all their minds transfigur'd so together. More wituesseth than fancy's images, And grows to something of great constancy ; But, howsoever, strange,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...Apartment in the Palate of Theseus. Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...An Apartment in the Palace of THESEUS. fiater THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTBATE, Lords and Attendants. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Hip. But all the story... | |
| Alfred Thomas Roffe - Ghost in literature - 1851 - 44 pages
...artful stroke, on the part of the Author, at the Skeptics. THESEUS. — " More strange than true. 1 never may believe These antique fables, nor these...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ?" To this speech Hippolyta very justly answers, that " All the story of the night... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt - 1852 - 566 pages
...The. More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Jjovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so... | |
| Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear. [See 818.] 443. IMITATION. The young often copy the defects of those whom they admire.... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true : I never may believe These antic s. Pro. scmething of great constancy, But, howsoever, strange, and admirable. The. Here come the lovers, full... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 440 pages
...Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true : I never may believe These antic fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen,...And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More witnesselh than faney's images, And grows to something of great constaney, But, howsoever, strange,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...judgment in an honest face. 37 — iii. 3. 423. Lover, lunatic, and poet. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ? 7 — v. 1. 424. Lover's gift. She stripp'd it from her arm ; I see her yet ; Her... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all аз frantick, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear? Hip. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so... | |
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