| Frederick Nolan - 1810 - 396 pages
...as purely fictitious, and ascribing the delusion of the parties concerned, to natural causes; TUES I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.— Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...Philostrate, Lordi, and Attendants. Sip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends* The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact*: One sees more devils than vast... | |
| William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and Attendants. Hip. Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak or. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:1 One sees more devils than vast... | |
| Medora Gordon Byron - 1812 - 228 pages
...the -chief personage of our history, to whom we must dedicate a new chapter. CHAP. \ ' CHAP. III. " Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact." WE left Wentworth deeply impressed with the miseries of a bachelor's... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...undistinguishLike far-off mountains turned into clouds. The Power of Imagination. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; Tim is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, S«s Helen's beauty in a brow of Kgypt. The jxx-t's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. "Pis strange, my Theseus, that these loveri speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact * : One sees more devils than vast... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 312 pages
...clean some silver spangles, and cut out foil for his coronation dress in Lady Macbeth. CHAPTER II. *' Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason comprehends." SHAKISPKARI. "What! shall quips and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...PHILOSTBATE, Lords, and Attendant!. Hip. "Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Snch shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover,... | |
| 1823 - 626 pages
...suspended, or, it may be said, entirely excluded. — Shakspeare says, " The madman, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold : The madman this. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Ellen's beanty in a brow of Egypt. While the poet's... | |
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