| William Coxe - Great Britain - 1800 - 522 pages
...from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n, A«ct as imagination bodies forth „ The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to fhape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name."* By By the wife and temperate uie which the maf- Chapter^. ter of the revels... | |
| Annabella Plumptre - 1801 - 302 pages
...glance from heav'n to earth, from earth t< heav'n ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to fhape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." If you have ever happened to go to dine dine at a tavern, you have no doubt... | |
| Henry Kett - Best books - 1803 - 468 pages
...» •i " 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 form of...Turns them to fhape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." Of the nature and effects of the art, the fweet and original {"trains of the... | |
| Anna Seward - Lichfield (England) - 1804 - 454 pages
...poetically weak of fight ; but ftill it is the refult of that power, which Shake/pear characierifes when he fays, The Poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling,...forth The form of things unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to fhnpe, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. • SECOND CANTO Opens with... | |
| Anna Seward - Lichfield (England) - 1804 - 446 pages
...of fight; .but ftill it is the refult of that power, which Shakefpear characterifes when he fays, A The Poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance...bodies forth The form of things unknown, the Poet's pen Tttrns them to fhape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. , i • SECOND CANTO... | |
| Anna Seward - Physicians - 1804 - 352 pages
...weak of sight; but still it is the result of that power, which Shakspeare characterises when he says, The Poet's eye in a fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance...bodies forth The form of things unknown, the Poet's pea Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. THE SECOND CANTO... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance" from Heaven to earth, from earth to Heaven f And as-imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the Poet's...Turns them to fhape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. HEAVEN doth with us as we with torches do,. Not light them for themfelves: for... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...powers. 'rThe poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The form* of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name." • • Midsummer toighl'i... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...wle .will, The Poet's eyes, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ;^ And as imagination bodies forth ... The form of things unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives-.to airy nothing; A local habile. 'ion and a name, Heaven .doth with us as... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...creation. " 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 form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." The poet enjoys the privilege... | |
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