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The family Shakespeare [expurgated by T. Bowdler]. in which those words are ... - Page 493
by William Shakespeare - 1853
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 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...comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:5 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is, the madman : the lover,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 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...comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : * One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 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...comprehends. The lunatick, 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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. Tis strange, my Theseus, that Uiese lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe '* These...comprehends. The lunatick, 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,...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 472 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...comprehends. The lunatick, 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,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...these A Invars speak of. lovers speak of. [lieve The . More strange than true. I never may beThese antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen...comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact1 : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is, the madman: the lover,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...PHILOSIBATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hippolyta. '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 lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell...
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An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetick licence, by N.A. Vigors ...

Frederick Nolan - 1810 - 396 pages
...as purely fictitious, and ascribing the delusion of the parties concerned, to natural causes; TUES I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.— Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...Philostrate, Lordi, and Attendants. Sip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...comprehends* The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact*: One sees more devils than vast hell can bold ; That is, the madman : the...
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Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and Attendants. Hip. Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak or. The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:1 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the...
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