 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 498 pages
...Glances 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 shape, and gives to airy nothing, A local habitation and a name. It is this peculiar property which gives character to that remarkable elegy.... | |
 | John Jones Thomas - 1860 - 258 pages
...signifies ' the Indian fig, and buddhist means ' the sage.' " " And, as imagination bodies forth " The form of things unknown, the poet's pen "Turns them to shape, and ghes to airy [tomttjtituj] " A local habitation and a name." IS* LZCTURE IV. -i^TJSCM VEL SEMI:VA BEBCJL... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...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 shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. — Sliakespere. Impertinence. Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...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. shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Midsummer Night's Dream. sr:.. %?.*L.*..i ei.% (-„,» (Bom 1570. ^ir jxoricn... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1864 - 582 pages
...poetic power. It is the ability of forming vivid conceptions which 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." § 64. Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief. Our conceptions are... | |
 | Edward Whitfield - 1865 - 124 pages
...frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, aa imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." SHAKSPERE. Bringing this essay to a close, I may be allowed to say, that my... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...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 shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." Midsum. Night'i Dream, v. 1. 17. Cunning,— skill, experience: "If I forget... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 pages
...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 shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." Another poet (Byron) has defined his own art thus : ' ' For what is poesy,... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling - 1869 - 792 pages
...from heav'n to earth, from earth to hoav'ii; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of tilings unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy Nothing A local habitation and a name. 3cnc „Häufung" unb jene „.Cniuaffima, won einem («cgen« ¡tanbe ^uin... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 564 pages
...poetic power. It is the ability of forming vivid conceptions which 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." § 64. Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief. Oar conceptions are... | |
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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 shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. 
