...PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hippolyta. 'T is strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Theseus. More strange than true : I never may believe These...poet Are of imagination all compact : One sees more deviis than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, I0 Sees Helen's beauty...

...of.1 THE. More strange than true : I never may " believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.8 Lovers and madmen have such seething * brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact : 7 One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman...

...hence results between the deliverances of the imagination and the reason Shakespeare thus defines : — Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact. In connection with this creative and well-nigh omnipotent force of...

...Apartment in the Palace of THESEUS. Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The....these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,1 Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic,...

...PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hippolyta. 'T is strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Theseus. More strange than true : I never may believe These...poet Are of imagination all compact : One sees more deviis than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, I0 Sees Helen's beauty...

...is the love begotten of imagination that here bears sway. Hence these words of Theseus (v. i): — " Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact." And then follows Shakespeare's first deliberate utterance as to the...

...Athens. The Palace of Theseus. Enter THESEUS, HIPPO LYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The....seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 5 More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet, Are of imagination all...

...If I made them sport then, what should I now? I ought to give them another chance !' CHAPTER III ' Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact.' Midsummer-Nighfs Dream. HOWEVER carefully one may avoid allusion to...

...a dream of our own imagination . for a pattern of the world." — Great Instauration — Place) . " Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling Doth glance from heaven...

...Athens. T/<e Palace of Theseus. Enter THESEUS, HIPFOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords, and Attendants. Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The....Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such 'shapingTantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and...