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. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are... Shakspere: Personal Recollections - Page 171by John Alexander Joyce - 1904 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1600 - 98 pages
...HirrOLITA, and Lords, and attendants. Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. T/if. More strange than true. I never may believe These...toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Arc of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1768 - 330 pages
...Lovers and madmen have fuch feething brains, Such maping fantafies, that apprehend More than cool reafon ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One fees more devils than vaft hell can hold ; The madman. While the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helens... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1785 - 530 pages
...The LUNATIC, the LOVER, and the POET, Are of imagination all compact. One fees more devils than vaft hell can hold, That is the MADMAN : the LOVER, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty on a brow of Egypt : The POET'S eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1787 - 694 pages
...and madmen, have fuch " feething brains, Such fhaping fantafies, that apprehend More than cool reafon ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all ° compact: One fees more devils than vaft hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantick, Sees Helen's... | |
| William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann - 1787 - 700 pages
...and madmen, have fuch " feething brains, Such fhaping fantafies, that apprehend More than cool reafon ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all ° compact : One fees more devils than vaft hell can hold -, That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantick, Sees... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...ECEUS, PSJLOSTRATE, Lords, (2c. Hippolita. T is strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. J,overs and madmen, have such seething brains, Such Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. '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:5 One sees more devils than vast... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...Philostrate, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, ami madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 386 pages
...and madmen, have fuch feething brains, Such fhaping fantafies, that apprehend More than cool reafon ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One fees more devils than vaft hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic,. Sees Helen's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. '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... | |
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