 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 310 Seiten
...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. Such tricks...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Theseus. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. i. IMPATIENCE [865]. All the power of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 1146 Seiten
...a name. [nothing Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, Ц shortly hear from him. or I will subscribe him a coward. And. I pray thee now, tell me fancy s images, And grows to something of great constancy ; But, howsoever, strange and admirable.... | |
 | 1876 - 814 Seiten
...universe. The explanation is given at the end of Shakspeare's familiar passage about the poet's eye : Such tricks hath strong imagination That, if it would...the night, imagining some fear. How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! The л/prehension of the passion, as Shakspeare logically says, is a comprehension... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 Seiten
...seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. . . Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Theseus expresses the rationalistic mistrust of imagination which was 1 Comedy of... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 Seiten
....Night's Dream, deals with in elaborate and colourful detail: The lunatic, the lover and the poet Arc of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! ( Vi)10 True enough, Elizabethan aestheticians were fond of invoking familiar commonplaces... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 Seiten
...the whole of Shakespeare is uttered by Theseus in the final act: I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! One obvious function of this speech is to vent scepticism — not just the character's,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...their savours. (II, ii) E1L; FaPON; GN; InvP; NOBE; OBEY; OBSC; TrGrPo 127 The lunatic, the lover, and (1. 1—2) 8 The pallor of girl's brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of supposed a bear! (V, i) 128 Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy... | |
 | 1997 - 68 Seiten
...Theseus, what these lovers speak of. THESEU& More strange than true; I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. (Enter Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and... | |
 | Georg Feuerstein - 1997 - 268 Seiten
...Midsummer-Night's Dream (Act V): The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: . . . Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Thus, our mental images are far from being passive residents in our mind. They actively... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 Seiten
...darker tragedy. At the end of the play, Theseus disparages imagination's power to metamorphose reality: Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear! (5.ll 8-22) Theseus engages in his own magisterial act of meiosis, denying the reciprocity involved... | |
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact : One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth... 
