 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....  Lectures on the English Comic Writers - Page 5by William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1745 - 574 pages
...rubies unparagon'd How dearly they do't ! — — 'tis her breathing that Perfumes the chamber thus : the flame o' th* taper Bows tow'ard her, and would under-peep her lids, To fee th' inclofed lights, now canopy'd 3 'Under thofe curtains white with azure lac'd, Thex blue of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...'shapes,- and gives to airy -nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; 20 Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? Hip. But all the story... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends...Or, in the night, 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 trausfigur'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends...Or, in the night, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends...Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? * Are of imagination all compact :] ie are made of mere imagination. Hip. But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends...Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? ' Are of imagination all compact:] ie are made of mere imagination. Hip. But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends...Or, in the night, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 328 pages
...tricks hath strong imagination; Thai, if it wonld bnt apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bainger of that joy; ' Or,, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bnsh snppos'da bear? Hip. Bnt all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfignr'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends...Or, in the night, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 472 pages
...shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends...Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear? Hip. But all the story of the night told orer, And all their minds transfigur'd... | |
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