 | English poets - English poetry - 1889 - 596 pages
...his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted. Merchant of Venice. IMAGINATION. LO/ERS and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, m SIR ROBERT AYTON. Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ;... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...why rebuke you him, that loves you so ? Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. Sh. Mid. N. in. 2. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatie, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. Sh.Mid. N. v. 1. Never durst poet... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - Psychology - 1882 - 214 pages
...images of the world of sense. The great " analyst of human nature" has well described imagination : '' Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatie, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - Psychology - 1882 - 212 pages
...images of the world of sense. The great " analyst of human nature " has well described imagination : " Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can holdThat Is the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...an unreliable imagination's creation of the appearance of reality: I never may believe These antic fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. [Vi2-6] As we have already noted, Hippolyta persists in seeing the situation differently and speculates... | |
 | Leona Toker - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 266 pages
...relationship between the themes and techniques of Mary. King, Queen, Knave, or Lust under the Linden Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream 5.1 Nabokov's second... | |
 | Christopher Collins - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 226 pages
..."Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of," the king replies: More strange than true. 1 never may believe These antique fables, nor these...imagination all compact. One sees more devils than all hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of... | |
 | Gary Richard Thompson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 340 pages
...Oberonic power of the imagination. His attempt to discount the imaginative is patently ambivalent: More strange than true. I never may believe These...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. And as imagination hodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...Philostrate, Lords, and A t tendant s HIPPOLYTA "lis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. THESEUS More strange than true. I never may believe These...compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. io That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Vi This scene (which forms the complete Act) follows... | |
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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 Are... 
