 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...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare - Sivu 305tekijä(t) William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 sivua
...forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings 0 supposed a bear ! — Shakespeare. Fancy can save or kill ; it hath closed up Wounds when the balsam... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 494 sivua
...Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. 'T is strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true : I never may...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1879 - 422 sivua
...universe. The explanation is given at the end of Shakespeare's familiar passage about the poet's eye : Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! The ^/prehension of the passion, as Shakespeare logically says, is a «w/prehension... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 444 sivua
...THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATB, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true : I never may...so together, More witnesseth than fancy's images, (03) shape,] The old eds. have " shapes." And grows to something of great constancy ; But, howsoever,... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 sivua
...seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. . . Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Theseus expresses the rationalistic mistrust of imagination which was 1 Comedy of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2014 - 228 sivua
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination 20 That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear. Hippolyta But all the story of the night told over, 25 And all their minds transfigured... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 sivua
....Night's Dream, deals with in elaborate and colourful detail: The lunatic, the lover and the poet Arc of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! ( Vi)10 True enough, Elizabethan aestheticians were fond of invoking familiar commonplaces... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 sivua
...and memorably-ironic, speeches in the whole of Shakespeare is uttered by Theseus in the final act: I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! One obvious function of this speech is to vent scepticism — not just the character's,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sivua
...their savours. (II, ii) E1L; FaPON; GN; InvP; NOBE; OBEY; OBSC; TrGrPo 127 The lunatic, the lover, and (1. 1—2) 8 The pallor of girl's brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of supposed a bear! (V, i) 128 Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy... | |
 | John Sallis - 1995 - 276 sivua
...out-run the Judgment. 5 Or finally, Shakespeare, again through the mouth of Theseus: Such tricks halh strong imagination. That, if it would but apprehend...the night, imagining some fear How easy is a bush supposed a bear! < ' The operation of this suspicion is not, however, simply an operation at a distance.... | |
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