Hidden fields
Books Books
" 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. "
Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical - Page 56
edited by - 1828
Full view - About this book

An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetick licence, by N.A. Vigors ...

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...
Full view - About this book

The Plays of William Shakspeare: Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's ...

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...
Full view - About this book

Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ...

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...
Full view - About this book

The Englishman: A Novel. In Six Volumes, Volume 3

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...
Full view - About this book

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1812 - 442 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]
Snippet view - About this book

Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

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...
Full view - About this book

The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 2

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...
Full view - About this book

Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale, Volume 3

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,...
Full view - About this book

The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

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,...
Full view - About this book

The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 5

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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF