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 - 1824 - 352 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 518 pages
...Philostrate, Lordi, and Attendants. II :• TU strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. 7^*. More strange than true. I never may believe These...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. Tli. lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact ' One sees more devils than vast... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cuol reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and toe poet, Are of imagination all compact * : One sees...•That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, «es Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: Tbe poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These antiijne fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen,...apprehend More, than cool reason ever comprehends. Thelunatic, thelover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils, than vast... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...Attendants. Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than trne. n, With walking once about the quadrangle, I come to talk of commonwealth affairs. As fo snch seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More, than cool reason ever comprehends.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. [lieve The. More strange than true. I never may beThese a ] bold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 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 : l One sees more devils than vast... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...PHILOSTKATE, 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 2 : One sees more devils than vast... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 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...toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains 1, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 444 pages
...PHILOSTKATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains1, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick,... | |
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