...THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHIIXDSTBATE. Lords [and Attendante]. Hip. 'T is strange, my Theseus, that the«.' lovers speak of. The. More strange than true ; I never...these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brain?. Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic,...

...ATHENS THE PALACE OF THESEUS Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTBATE, Lords, and Attendants HlPPOLYTA IS STRANGE, MY THEseus, that these lovers speak of....reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the Are of imagination all compact : [poet One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman...

...Athens. TJie Palace of THESEUS Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTKATE, Lords, and Attendants Hip. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. The....reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet0 Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman...

...Hippolyta and Theseus that opens this scene: - 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. - More strange than true. I never may believe These...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. . . Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some...

...relationship between the themes and techniques of Mary. King, Queen, Knave, or Lust under the Linden Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream 5.1 Nabokov's second...

..."Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of," the king replies: More strange than true. 1 never may believe These antique fables, nor these...imagination all compact. One sees more devils than all hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of...

...Oberonic power of the imagination. His attempt to discount the imaginative is patently ambivalent: More strange than true. I never may believe These...comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. And as imagination hodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's...

...love keep little company together nowadays. (3-1.137-9) Finally, Theseus compares lovers with madmen: 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) Love cannot be directed by reason, for it is blind; but it...

...this never more unforgettably expressed than in Theseus's ostensibly so dismissive lines in Act v: ... I never may believe These antique fables, nor these...apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as...

...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...