 | Spiritualism - 1866 - 588 pages
...shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. TJte lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact ; One sees...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear. To this speech Hippolyta very justly answers, that — All the story of the night... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 484 pages
...things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation und a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That,...night told over, And all their minds transfigur'd so togethrr, A MIDSUMMER-NIGHTS DREAM. More witnesscth than fancy's images, And grows to something of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 188 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ! Act 5, Sc. I. Pro. If we offend, it is with our good will. That you should think, we come not to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 pages
...bodies forth 'i'lie forms of things unknown, (he poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy gift hath made me happy. I now beseech you, for your...whate'er it be. Val. These bauish'd men, that I have Hnw easy is a bush suppus'da bear? Hip. But all the story of the night, told over, And all their minds... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...Elizabeth. V6. The Power of Imagination. — Act. V. Sc. I. T**scus. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! B. — HISTORICAL PLAYS. From KING JOHN. 7 7 • Lamentation of Constance. — Act... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 838 pages
...Fairies was evidently seeking " sweet savours," and not " sweet favour*," for her hirsute love. " Thei. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such...imagining some fear, How easy, is a bush suppos'da bear ?" Act V., Scene 1. How strange that this sublimely beautiful passage should have such a " lame and... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...1 Queen Elizabeth. V6• The Power of Imagination. — Act. V. Sc. I, Theseus. I never may believe That is the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! B.— HISTORICAL PLAYS. From KING JOHN. 7 y• Lamentation of Constance. — Act III.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 996 pages
...had this in his mind, when, speaking of Marlowe, he says : "That Jnv. madntst still he did retain. A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ! Il,,,. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - England - 1872 - 338 pages
...the same age,' " CHAPTEE XV. CONCLUSION. More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear. Shakspere. IN the preceding chapters the chief object I have had in view has been... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - Authors, English - 1872 - 438 pages
...seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. Ate of imagination all compact : One sees more devils...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!" And Ord soon became a lover as well as ap oet : a lover, but, alas! one whose love... | |
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can 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... 
