True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs... The American Whig Review - Page 1191846Full view - About this book
| 1839 - 400 pages
...indulging in those romantic dreams which a little experience of the world soon showed us were but — " The children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin as substance of the air, And more inconstant than the wind who waves Even now the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 312 pages
...good carriage. This, this is she Ro. Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace ; Thou talk'st of nothing. Mer. True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now... | |
| William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...Scene 1. TAIN FANCIES. Romeo. . . Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace: Thou talk'st of nothing. Mercutio. True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; Which is as thin of substance as the air; Ami more inconstant than the wind, &c. Bomeo and Juliet.... | |
| 1830 - 494 pages
...perused, with vivid interest, the narratives it contains. Mowbray. Believe in dreams ! — Psha ! They are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain Fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the... | |
| David Hoffman - 1841 - 380 pages
...are the reasonable soul run mad.' And when another, in nearly similar terms, declares that , 'Dreams are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind;' we have in these the... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 606 pages
...good carriage. This, is she8 — Rom. Peace, peace! Mercutio, peace7! Thou talk'st of nothing. Mer. True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1842 - 340 pages
...good carriage. This, this is she Ro. Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace ; Thou talk'st of nothing. Mer. True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind, -who wooes Even now... | |
| 1842 - 796 pages
...Havelock, and others, on the war in Affghanistan. Я AINTIINANI WAKNINO. 1 LEGEND ОP THE LOWEе 1H1NXOV. " True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of...an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy." ROMEO AND JULIET. PLEASANT it is, on a summer eve, to wander, " fancy free," through the far-famed... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 292 pages
...good carriage. This is she 95 Romeo Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace. Thou talk's! of nothing. Mercutio True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain. Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air 100 And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the... | |
| Eva T. H. Brann - Philosophy - 1991 - 828 pages
...cornerstone of fools" (An Explanation of Astronomy as a Whole); and Shakespeare has Mercutio speak of dreams Which are the children of an idle brain Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. [Romeo and Juliet, I iv] On the other hand, in the seventeenth century Milton still refers to fancy... | |
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