 The poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; 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.  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page xiii1787Full view - About this book
 | 1787 - 652 pages
...//..--M* : to be the right reading. The jixavia of the Poet is wonderfully defcribed by Shakefpeare : " The Poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance...things unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to (hapes, an J gives to airy nothing A local habit. tion, and a name." C 16. Taj TC ^cy-at ra? wfTrciTijUiVKf... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...hell can hold ; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantk, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. %x J- from earth to And, as imagination bodies forth fheavcnj The forms of things unknown, the poet s pen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1797 - 596 pages
...glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to (hapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath ftrong imagination ; That, if it would but apprehend fome... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1804 - 462 pages
...weak of fight ; but ftill it is the refult of that power, which Shakefpear chara&erifes when he fays, The Poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, • Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as Imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the Poet's pen Turns... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1804 - 446 pages
...of fight; .but ftill it is the refult of that power, which Shakefpear characterifes when he fays, A The Poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as Imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the Poet's pen Tttrns... | |
 | 1807 - 442 pages
...pathetic;—and sometimes humourous. To sublimity Mr. Davis lays no claim ;—we cannot say of him, " The poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling;, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 262 pages
...is life rounded with the sleep of death. Rounded — means the completion of the circle of life. " The Poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy, rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the Poet's pen Turns... | |
 | George Watterston - 1818 - 158 pages
...sentiment. The orator, analyzes and reasons, compares and deduces ; the poet combines and imitates ; " His eye in a fine phrenzy rolling, * Doth glance from Heaven to earth, from earth to Heaven, and embodies forth the forms of things unknown.?' The orator must exist in the... | |
 | Philip PUN (Gent., pseud.), Loves - 1824 - 88 pages
...which had somewhat declined since the halcyon days of the plants and the triangles. The above-named " poet's eye in a fine phrenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ;" and Lady Morgan, in her " France," mentions a French poem, by Mons. Le Mercier,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...Tremaine; and with an energy that seemed to confer a momentary pleasure upon him, he broke out with " The poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, " Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, " And while imagination bodies forth " The forms of things unknown, the poet's... | |
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