 | 1835 - 932 pages
...The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 1 A laca] habitation, and a name." These are the fruits of the " fine frenzy" which he asctibes to the poet, — a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 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.' These are...false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing . A local habitation and a name.' Theso are the fruits of the ' fine frenzy ' which he ascribes...false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 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.' These are...poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings arc just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought... | |
 | William Jones - Characters and characteristics - 1841 - 186 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." " These are...the ' fine frenzy' which he ascribes to the poet, — aj?ne frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth indeed is essential to poetry ; but it is the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 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." These are...fruits of the "fine frenzy" which he ascribes to the poet—a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry; but it is... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...passage apparently modeled after his own idea of poetry ; to which, he says, " truth is essential, but it is the truth of madness — the reasonings are just, but the premises are false." In his view, no poet ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton. Because, forsooth, " He... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 342 pages
...all this, which so palpably implies creative power, suggests to the essayist an unsound creator. " These are the fruits of the ' fine frenzy' which he...essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness." Ibid. p. 8. Surely the young essayist must have heard of the " nor'-west madness?" But he suffered... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...condition of poetry, and that no man can rightly enjoy poetry without this unsoundness. He says : " Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is...false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...imagination bodies forth The form« of things unknown, the poet'i pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing* A local habitation and a name." These are..." which he ascribes to the poet — a fine frenzy. doul>tleee, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry: but it is ihe truth of madness.... | |
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fine frenzy" which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just, but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have... 
