More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,... Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins - Page 229edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
| 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...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:5 One sees more devils than vast... | |
| 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...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:' One sees more devils than vast... | |
| 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...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : * One sees more devils than vast... | |
| 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...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell... | |
| 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...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell... | |
| 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...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... | |
| 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...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:1 One sees more devils than vast... | |
| 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...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends* The lunatick, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact*: One sees more devils than vast... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...PHILOSTHA.TE, Lords, and Attendants. Hlppolyta. 'TIS strange, my Theseus., that these lovers speak of. Ql^he. More strange than true. I never may believe These...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1817 - 344 pages
...PHILOSTRATB, Lordi, and Attendants. Hippolyta. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak o(T The. More strange than true. I never may believe These...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... | |
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