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 is,... The Dramatic Works of W. Shakespeare - Page 151by William Shakespeare - 1849 - 925 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1881 - 104 pages
...THE. More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...hold, That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, 10 Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - Literature - 1882 - 566 pages
...The. More strange than true ; I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...hold: That is the madman ; the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty hi a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1882 - 326 pages
...The. More strange than true : I never may believe These antick fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...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 glance from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...I never may believe These antique fables, noi these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seeming ; Be not thyself, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Kgypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1883 - 946 pages
...The. More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...hold, That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, K> Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1884 - 428 pages
...TTteseus. More strange than true : I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...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 glance from... | |
| Robert Jardine - Cognition - 1884 - 412 pages
...imagination. Hence a highly poetical imagination is sometimes thought to be akin to madness. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping.... 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 glance from... | |
| Robert Jardine - Consciousness - 1885 - 368 pages
...highly poetical imagination is sometimes thought to be akin to madness. Lovers and madmen have snoh seething brains, Such shaping fantasies that apprehend...— 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 glance from... | |
| University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1918 - 596 pages
...Theseus. More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...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 glance from heaven... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1894 - 476 pages
...Night's Dream : 1 • — • ': I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...hold, That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : 1 V. i. 2-17. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth... | |
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