 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 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 Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 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 - 1846 - 574 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...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 so... | |
 | Benjamin Ingersol Lane - Nicotine addiction - 1846 - 200 pages
...suffer from its use, it excites the passions, and things are seen with a false shape and coloring : " As in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear." Catherine de Medicis, the person said to have prompted the horrible massacre of St. Bartholomew's day... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy ial's court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured...our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and suppos'da bear ? Hip. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigur'd so... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy ; < >r in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ? Hip. But all the story... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing Л local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong...but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer ofthat joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear. How easy is a bush suppos'da bear 7 Hip. But all... | |
 | George Moore - Mind and body - 1848 - 304 pages
...impresses the sense of sight with past realities, that it perceives only what imagination presents. " Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear." — Stdkspcarc. Now it is clear, from every example of recollection, that ideas do not affix themselves... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 570 pages
...specimens to be found, in which our author is both delicate and ingenious in his scepticism. He remarks — Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That if it would...some joy; It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; a passage evidently directed at the foundation of Natural Theology. TAMING OF THE SHREW. Religious... | |
 | William John Birch - Religion in literature - 1848 - 574 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, That if he would but apprehend some joy, He comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or, in the night, imagining... | |
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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 shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.... 
