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" 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. "
Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical - Page 56
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare...: Embracing a Life of ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 576 pages
...'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The. More strange than true. I never may beb'eve These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers,...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...
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Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.—HDL. I., 1. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such...fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.—THR. V., 1. M Merry and tragical ? Tedious and brief ? That is, hot ice, and wonderous...
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The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 688 pages
...PHILOSTEATE, Lords, and Attendants. HIP. 'T is 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 lunatie, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell...
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Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays

Sandor Goodhart - Music - 2000 - 306 pages
...of (5.1.1 ). Theseus responds with a now-famous speech: More strange than true. I never may beiieve These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Arc of imagination all compact. And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's...
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The Spirit of Poesy: Essays on Jewish and German Literature and Thought in ...

Richard A. Block, Peter David Fenves - German literature - 2000 - 272 pages
...fables" and "fairy toys" that are not to be believed. They are the productions of rather strange brains: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. (5.1.4-8) The poet appears in rather dubious company. We might, of...
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Memoirs of Modern Philosophers

Elizabeth Hamilton - Fiction - 2000 - 428 pages
...and till then may the GOD of mercies take thee under his protection! "Amen! and farewell! MG" CHAP.V "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, "Such...apprehend "More than cool reason ever comprehends." SHAKESPEARE.38 37 EdwaidYoung, Night Thoughts (1742-45),V. 327-28. 38 Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 148 pages
...fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet s Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: w That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, 1 1 Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...fácilmente se toma a una mata por un oso.'7 17. The. More strange than true. I never may believe /This antique fables, nor these fairy toys. / Lovers and...reason ever comprehends. / The lunatic, the lover, and tne poet / Are of imagination all compact: / One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; / That is...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 134 pages
...Philostrate, Lords and Attendants Hippolyta 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Theseus More strange than true. I never may believe These...toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 5 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover,...
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Henry V

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 pages
...apprehends] WRIGHT (ed. 1897): Conceives in his imagination. Cf. Midsummer Night's Dream, V, i, 4: "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends." 214. he ... Scot] DAVIES (Dram. Misc., 1785): A proverbial expression meaning he shall not have'the...
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