 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 Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes - Page 127by William Shakespeare - 1745Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ;, And, as imagination bodies forth... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 374 pages
...magic virtue of poetry, which •our Shakespear has so forcibly described in those well-known lines — The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rowling, Doth glance...heav'nj And, as Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to aery nothing A local habitation... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...magic virtue of poetry, which our Shakespear has so forcibly described in those well-known lines — The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rowling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And, as Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...imagination all compact*: One sees more devils than vast hell can bold ; That is, the madman : the lover, nit as frantick, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a tine frenzy rolling. Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 770 pages
...Latin; TWrf .] An inventor ; an author of fictions ; a writer of poems ; one who wriies in meafure. — The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rowling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 716 pages
...To.»7.r<.] An inventor; an author of fictions ; a writer of poems ; one who writes in meafure.— The pott's eye in a fine frenzy rowling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 344 pages
...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 from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven : And, as imagination bodies forth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...of imagination all compact * : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantick, 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 Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; The madman. While 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 from heav'h to earth, from earth toheav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The... | |
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