 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1777 - 510 pages
...frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poets pen Turns them to ftiape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. This is perhaps the fined piaur* of... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1787 - 494 pages
...frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poets pen Turns them to fhapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 5, S.... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 566 pages
...earth, from earth to heavV, " 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." Shakspeare. No method of instruction has been more ancient, more universal,... | |
 | Richard Warner - England - 1802 - 318 pages
...earth, from earth to heav'n ; " And, as imagination bodies forth " The forms of things unknown, whofe pen " Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing " A local habitation and a name; or whether we consider him as " a man amongst men;" a nice analyzer of their... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies fofth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." Of the nature and effects of the art, the sweet and original strains of the... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...earth, from earth to heav'n, 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. DESCRIPTION of a MAN swimming ashore. (SHAKESPEARE.) I SAW him beat the surges... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1809 - 526 pages
...fine frenzy rolling Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poets pen Turns them to shape anJ gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name — ja, waô fottberbar íft, «m bte ft'mpeífíe... | |
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - Comparative literature - 1810 - 338 pages
...earth, from earth to heav'n And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing...local habitation and a name. Midsummer Night's Dream. ON THE PRETERNATURAL BEINGS. .As the genius of Shakspeare, through the whole extent of the Poet's province,... | |
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - Comparative literature - 1810 - 336 pages
...earth, from earth to heav'n 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't Dream. ON THE PRETERNATURAL BEINGS. the genius of Shakspeare, through the whole extent of the... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1810 - 466 pages
...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. This is poetical invention, described with more than poetical truth. For observe,... | |
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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. 
