 | William Sweetser - 1850 - 456 pages
...upon its confines. Shakspeare, however, classes all lovers with lunatics. "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees...frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt." But it is when the passion is so extravagant as to bring the judgment quite under its subjection, to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 568 pages
...cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact.1 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That...Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fme frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 600 pages
...PHILOSTKATE, Lords, and Attendants. HIP. 'T is strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. THE. More strange than true. I never may believe These...a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Y Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, ^ And, as imagination bodies forth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...V. THE POWER OF IMAGINATION. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact :f One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That...a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heav'nj And, as imagination bodies forth The... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...LUNATIC, THE LOVER, AND THE POET. 1 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compaci .* One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: That...as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: 2 The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;... | |
 | 1848 - 708 pages
...without lifting his eyes from his book, he began to read again : — " The lunatic, the lover, anJ the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees...a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...imagination all compact : One sees more devils than Vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : tlr; lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination .bodies forth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...Brags of his substance, not of ornament : They are but beggars that can count their worth. EJi\.6. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...prospects high, But time strips our illusions of their hue. Byron. IMAGINATION. THE lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees...beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine phrenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And, as imagination bodies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...PHILOSTRATI;, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. T\s strange, my Theseus, that thene lovers speak of. The. t sC fren/.y rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth, to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies... | |
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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 glance... 
