 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 715 pages
...why rebuke you him, that loves you so ? Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. Sh. Mid. iV. in. 2. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. Sh. Mid. N. v. 1. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 383 pages
...translate, And follies are miscall'd the crimes of fate. POPE. Odyssey, Book I. IMAGINATION. Theseus. MORE strange than true. I never may believe These...and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping phantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1868 - 764 pages
...in the Palace of Theseus, F.nier Theseus, Hipnolyta/ Philostrate, Lords and Attendants. Hip. Т is , our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we...that vow we have forsworn our books : For when would holdThat is the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Kgypt : The poet's... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 477 pages
...about the earth In forty minutes. 1 Queen Elizabeth. 76. Tie Power of Imagination. — Act. V. Sc. I, . I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: That is the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871
...Apartment in the Palace of THESEUS. Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLTTA, PHO.OSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak...nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seetliing brains, 1 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 696 pages
...attractive mien. Mark AtentitU. 191§. IMAGINATION, Poemsioni of. Thfaeus. More strange than true : I nerer LAND, The Better moro devils than vast hell can holdThat is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - England - 1872 - 306 pages
...we cannot tell which is the eldest, you must be both of the same age,' " CHAPTEE XV. CONCLUSION. j More strange than true. I never may believe These...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact ; Oue sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is the madman... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - Folklore - 1872 - 306 pages
...strange than true, I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen hare such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that...One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That i* the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt ; The poet's eye,... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - Authors, English - 1872 - 24 pages
...betrothed Hippolia, Queen of the Amazons (and the passage was a favourite one with poor Ord) :— " More strange than true. I never may believe These...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. Ate of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman... | |
 | London (England) - 1873
...ever be descriptive ? Let us turn to Shakespeare's dictum on the subject : ' Lovers and madmen hnve such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that...compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — The madman. While the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's... | |
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More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. 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,... 
