 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.  The Border magazine - Page 3001863Full view - About this book
 | James Harris - Conduct of life - 1775 - 574 pages
...Earth, from Earth to Heav'n, And as IMAGINATION bodies forth THE FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN, the Poet' 3 Pen Turns them to Shape, and gives to airy. nothings A local Habitation and a Name (z). And hence that tribe of FIGURES, which are neither natural, nor artificial, nor intellectual,... | |
 | James Harris - Form (Philosophy) - 1799 - 544 pages
...glance fr cm Heav'n to Earth, front Earth to Heav'n, And as IMAGINATION bodies forth THE FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN, the Poet's Pen , . .', Turns them to Shape,...gives to airy nothings : A local Habitation and a Name fzj. v And hence that tribe of FIGURES, which are neither natural, nor artificial, nor intellectual,... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1799 - 390 pages
...diverfifying, and frequently diftorting, the fubjects of its power. It bodies forth the form of things unknown, And gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name. But But the irregular and wild defires which feizc upon the mind through the avenues of an untamed fancy,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 566 pages
...glance from heav'n to 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,... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...glance from heaven to 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...glance from heav'n to 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... | |
 | Hannah More - Conduct of life - 1810 - 220 pages
...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. This is perhaps the finest picture of human genius that ever... | |
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - Comparative literature - 1810 - 336 pages
...glance from heaven to 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... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 446 pages
...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. This is poetical invention, described with more than poetical... | |
 | Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) - Comparative literature - 1810 - 338 pages
...glance from heaven to 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's Dream. ON THE PRETERNATURAL BEINGS. .As the... | |
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