 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
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 716 pages
...To.»7.r<.] An inventor; an author of fictions ; a writer of poems ; one who writes in meafure.— The pott's eye in a fine frenzy rowling, Doth glance from heav'n...heav'n ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to ftiape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation... | |
 | William Coxe - Prime ministers - 1816 - 464 pages
...his own language Can alone adequately delineate. t " The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Glances 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... | |
 | James Andrew - English language - 1817 - 152 pages
...as they might be supposed to be according to probability. 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... | |
 | Edward Durell (curate of Withiel.) - 1818 - 204 pages
...to the height of poet's frenzy wrought. — 6. p. 32. ' 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 form of things unknown, the Poet's pen ' Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing 'A local habitation... | |
 | William Green (of Ambleside.) - Lake District (England) - 1819 - 524 pages
...the resplendent and ruddier hues of evening. Here • The poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, " Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; " And, as imagination bodies forth " The form of tilings unknown, the poet's pen " Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing " A local... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...divinity that shapes our ends, Roughhew them how we will. The Poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance from Heav'n to earth, from earth to Heav'n ; 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 habitation... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...creatures of his own imagination. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from hcav'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... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Philosophy - 1827 - 906 pages
...Serfianbt/ ter bier reiner uno 6&&et gilt : — the lovers eye in • fine frenzy rolling Doth glänze from heav'n to earth , from earth to heav'n And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the lover's eye Turns them to shape and gives the airy 83iâutta.am nu« fanée... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: 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 shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation,... | |
 | Pierce Egan - London (England) - 1838 - 418 pages
...something after the manner of Kean's beloved Shakspeare:— 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 form of things unknown, the poet's pen, Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation... | |
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