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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 shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name. "
Bentley's Monthly Review, Or, Literary Argus - Page 390
1854
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 84, Part 2; Volume 116

Early English newspapers - 1814 - 752 pages
...Earth to Heav'n ; And as Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, his ready pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name. Oh ! what a noble piece of work was he, In faculty, in reason- infinite ! A combination and a form...
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A New & Compendious History of the County of Warwick: From the Earliest ...

William Smith (Topographer) - Warwickshire (England) - 1830 - 652 pages
...Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to hetven, And, as imagination bodies forth . . , The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Tums them to shapes ; and gives to airy nothing, A local habitation and a name. On the pedestal are these words from Hamlet : - Take him for...
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A New System of Phrenology

James Stanley Grimes - Phrenology - 1839 - 346 pages
...earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings, A local habitation and a name. Ideas of perception are always true to reality, except in cases of disease, or illusion of the senses;...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some...
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The Works of James Harris, Esq

James Harris - Philosophy, Modern - 1841 - 618 pages
...earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name. Shaksp. Mids. Night's Dream, act v. sc. 1. And hence that tribe of figures, which are neither natural,...
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The works of James Harris esq., with an account of his life and character ...

James Harris - 1841 - 652 pages
...earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The fonus of things unknown, the poet's pen Turna them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name. Shaksp. Micls. Night's Dream, act v. «c. 1. And hence that tribe of figures, which are neither natural,...
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The universal class-book: a ser. of reading lessons

Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...mental part of it. " And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name." 1. In what year was Shakspeare born; and how long after his arrival in London was he known as a dramatist...
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The Philosophy of Mystery

Walter Cooper Dendy - Apparitions - 1845 - 482 pages
...earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name." — Midsummer Night's Dream. ASTR. Is there so potent a charm in poppies, Evelyn ? You will make us...
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Poetic Prism, Or, Original and Reflected Rays from Modern Verse Sacred and ...

Robert Northmore Greville - English poetry - 1848 - 434 pages
...earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name." " AND is it so?" the young aspirant cries, " Ah ! then, be mine the poet's glance of fire— The frenzied...
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Poetic Prism, Or, Original and Reflected Rays from Modern Verse Sacred and ...

Robert Northmore Greville - English poetry - 1848 - 434 pages
...earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name." " AND is it so?" the young aspirant cries, " Ah ! then, be mine the poet's glance of fire — The frenzied...
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