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
| 1852 - 394 pages
...Midsummer Night's Dream : Hippolyta. — 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. T'heseus — More strange than true. I never may believe These...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... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt - 1852 - 566 pages
...PHILOSTBATE, Lords and Attendants. Sip. '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. Jjovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies that apprehend More than cool... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. 'TÍ8 strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Thei. More strange than true. I never may believe These...hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all аз frantick, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 552 pages
...PHILOSTRATE, LORDS, and ATTENDANTS. Hippolyta. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Theseus. 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:4 One sees more devils than vast... | |
| Sandor Goodhart - 2000 - 306 pages
...of (5.1.1 ). Theseus responds with a now-famous speech: More strange than true. I never may beiieve These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Arc of imagination all compact. And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's... | |
| Richard A. Block, Peter David Fenves - 2000 - 272 pages
...fables" and "fairy toys" that are not to be believed. They are the productions of rather strange brains: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. (5.1.4-8) The poet appears in rather dubious company. We might, of... | |
| Elizabeth Hamilton - 2000 - 428 pages
...and till then may the GOD of mercies take thee under his protection! "Amen! and farewell! MG" CHAP.V "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, "Such...apprehend "More than cool reason ever comprehends." SHAKESPEARE.38 37 EdwaidYoung, Night Thoughts (1742-45),V. 327-28. 38 Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 148 pages
...fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet s Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: w That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, 1 1 Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's... | |
| Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...fácilmente se toma a una mata por un oso.'7 17. The. More strange than true. I never may believe /This antique fables, nor these fairy toys. / Lovers and...reason ever comprehends. / The lunatic, the lover, and tne poet / Are of imagination all compact: / One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; / That is... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2001 - 134 pages
...Philostrate, Lords and Attendants Hippolyta 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Theseus More strange than true. I never may believe These...toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 5 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover,... | |
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