The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Critical Observations on Shakespeare - Page 142by John Upton - 1748 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1773 - 494 pages
...Helen's beauty in a brow of Egype. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to fiiape, and gives toaiery nothing A local habitation... | |
| James Harris - Conduct of life - 1775 - 574 pages
...third Treatife of Vol. firft, p. 220, 370, 371. The C.VIII. ^e P°et's Eye *na fine Phrenzy rolling Doth glance from Heav'n to Earth, from Earth to Heav'n, And as IMAGINATION bodies forth THE FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN, the Poet' 3 Pen Turns them to Shape, and gives to airy. nothings A local Habitation... | |
| William Shakespeare - Biography (British) - 1778 - 190 pages
...characters fland fairer «vith the public. Hz Mr. * Mr. SHE DAN. The Poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from Heav'n to earth, from earth to Heav'n, And as imagination bodies forth, The forms of things unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to ftiapes, and gives to airing nothin-g, A local habitation... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1780 - 288 pages
...AUTHORS. .BY WILLIAM DODD, LLD LATE Of CLARE-HALL, CAMBRIDGE. The poet's eye, in a fine fren2y rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n> And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to ihape, and gives to airy nothing A loeal habitation... | |
| Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - 1785 - 336 pages
...well. ON THE PRETERNATURAL BEINGS. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heav'n, And, as Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to fliape, and gives to airy nothing" A local habitation... | |
| Edward Tatham (D.D.) - Apologetics - 1790 - 730 pages
...was not entirely unacquainted with the rationale of the Art. The Poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n...unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to fhape, and gives to airy »0/£/»£.r A local habitation and a name. ' In the higher departments of the Mufe, Poetry feigns... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...to people them with the creatures of his own imagination. The poet's eye, in a fine fren/.y rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to (hape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation... | |
| Annabella Plumptre - 1801 - 302 pages
...impoflible ! " The poet's eye, in a fne phrenfy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth t< heav'n ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms...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,... | |
| Richard Warner - England - 1802 - 318 pages
...vasto," whose eye, according to his own admirable definition of the term, " in a fine phrenzy rolling, " Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; " And, as imagination bodies forth " The forms of things unknown, whofe pen " Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing " A local habitation... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in the brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation... | |
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