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" Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : — One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, — That... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare - Page 139
by William Shakespeare - 1823
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends. / The lunatic, the lover, and tne poet / Are of imagination all compact: / One sees...a brow of Egypt: /The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; / And as imagination bodies forth...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 134 pages
...believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 5 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool...compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; 10 That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's...
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Visual Shakespeare: Essays in Film and Television

Graham Holderness - Performing Arts - 2002 - 220 pages
...ambivalent relations between 'reason' and 'fantasy', articulated in Theseus's famous speech THESEUS I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And, as imagination bodies forth The...
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Visual Shakespeare: Essays in Film and Television

Graham Holderness - Performing Arts - 2002 - 220 pages
...ambivalent relations between 'reason' and 'fantasy', articulated in Theseus's famous speech THESEUS I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And, as imagination bodies forth The...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...Theseus, that these lovers ±. speak of. THESEUS. More strange than true: I never may believe These antick sonably die, and never rise To do him wrong, or any way impeach What then rolling, [heaven; Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to And, as imagination bodies forth...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...waggish boys in game themselves forswear, So the boy Love is perjur'd everywhere. Helena — MND Li Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The...
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Tyranny in Shakespeare

Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...strong belief. This passage recalls Theseus's reflection on imagination from A Midsummer Night's Dream: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 23

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...they were written five minutes or five years after the rest of the speech: The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees...a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The...
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Poet Power: The Complete Guide to Getting Your Poetry Published

Thomas A. Williams - Business & Economics - 2002 - 217 pages
...of Contacts and Sources How to Make $100,000 a Year in Desktop Publishing The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees...Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven And as imagination bodies...
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Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art

William Desmond - Philosophy - 2003 - 322 pages
...lll'.S5— dc21 2003057266 riaaa dvaYKr] tovSe TOV KOOUOV eiKova tivoq eivai —Plato, Timaeus, 29B Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as fanatic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance...
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