 The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name....  History of English Literature - Page 145by Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 477 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen , Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination." If poetry is a dream, the business of life is much the same. If it is a fiction, made up of what we... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turne them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? II::: But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...retain, " Which rightly should possess upoet's brain." MALONE. Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? HIP. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...to which they served to contribute, had found no outlet for themselves. It is a sovereign law of the imagination, " That if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy," and this has forcible illustration here. Finally, I will warn the auspicious reader of what a very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 pages
...forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothingA local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That, if it would hut apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy : Or, in the night, imagining some... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 344 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? Hip. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 474 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives. to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? i Are of imagination all compact:] i. e. are made of mere imagination. - —— in a brow of Egypt:]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 436 pages
...things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local hahitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination ;...joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or, ID the night, imagining some frar, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ! Hip. But all the story of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 984 pages
...unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to sluipes, and gives to airy noA local habitation, and a name. (thin; atched with as few good deeds; for 'a never broke hringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear? Hip.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 352 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? Hip. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More... | |
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