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, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is,... The Elements of the Psychology of Cognition - Page 172by Robert Jardine - 1874 - 287 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1848 - 738 pages
...without lifting his eyes from his book, he began to read again : — " The lunatic, the lover, anj the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is the madman : the lover all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The puet's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...fables, nor these fairy toys. Lowers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so incliu'd. MaJ. With hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, See« Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The... | |
| John England - 1849 - 508 pages
...Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend Alore than coo! reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and...compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman : ihe lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt ; The... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean. 108. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, - Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is the madman : the lover all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The... | |
| William Sweetser - 1850 - 456 pages
...upon its confines. Shakspeare, however, classes all lovers with lunatics. "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt." But... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 556 pages
...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, Are of imagination all compact.1 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is, the madman... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 586 pages
...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, Are of imagination all compact.1 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 604 pages
...fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends....all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — That is the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...fables, nor these fairy toys. .Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends....compact :* One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends....all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The... | |
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