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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 shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. "
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Self-culture in Reading, Speaking, and Conversation: Designed for the Use of ...

William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pages
...from earth to heaven, And ' as imagination bodies forth ' The form ' of things unknown, the poet's pen | Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing | A local habitation ' and a name. 6. SUBLIME DESCRIPTION. The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous pdlaces, The solemn...
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

1856 - 570 pages
...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. Such tricks hath strong Imagination, That if he would but apprehend some joy,...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 4-6

Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forma of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a, name." Now the "local habitation and a name" is what Milton imparted to this trifling...
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Cousin Nicholas

Thomas Ingoldsby - 1856 - 410 pages
...earth, from earth to Ueav'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. — SHAKSPIARJ. The march of intellect — Musai Bullwinkllanse — How sleep...
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The Bristol magazine and West of England monthly review, Volume 1

1857 - 656 pages
...earth, from earth to heav'n ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forma of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination." Is then poetry a disease ? What are beauty,...
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The Poets and the Poetry of the Ancient Greeks: With an Historical ...

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 498 pages
...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. It is this peculiar property which gives character to that remarkable elegy....
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Sunbeams for all seasons; counsels, cautions, and precepts &c

Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...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. — Sliakespere. Impertinence. Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...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...local habitation and a name. Midsummer Night's Dream. sr:.. %?.*L.*..i ei.% (-„,» (Bom 1570. ^ir jxoricn ^utoit. tniedisss. A SCOTTISH poet and conrtier,...
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Abridgement of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1864 - 582 pages
...ability of forming vivid conceptions which 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." § 64. Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief. Our conceptions are...
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Two Essays; I. Pencillings of Beauty in Nature and Art. II. The Magnificence ...

Edward Whitfield - 1865 - 124 pages
...earth, from earth to heaven, And, aa imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." SHAKSPERE. Bringing this essay to a close, I may be allowed to say, that my...
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