| William Shakespeare - 1912 - 494 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had — but man is but a patch'd fool if he will offer to say what methought I had....write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called 220 Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1912 - 150 pages
...had, — but man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of 215 man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen,...to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called 220 Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1912 - 142 pages
...had, — but man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of 215 man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen,...to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called 220 Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before... | |
| John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pages
...come upon me. Act it. Se. i. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. ibid. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream, was. ibid. 1 Act i¡. se. 2 in Singer and Knight. 2 See Chapman, pape 36. • Trew as ateele. — CHAUCER... | |
| William Winter - 1916 - 610 pages
...in his moment of supreme illusion, and thus, involuntarily, he expounds the motive of the subject: "I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say...to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream EARLY REPRESENTATIONS.— BRITISH STAGE. Nothing is known of the acting of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, — and methought I had, — but man is but 215 a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought...nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will 220 get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it... | |
| 1916 - 336 pages
...have with my ribs," — a cognate joke. And cp. Furness' note on III, l, 57.) MN Dream, IV, l, 216: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. Mucedorus, ed. Proescholdt, p. 33: I can keep my tongue from picking and stealing, and my hands from... | |
| Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1916 - 376 pages
...vexation of a dream." — (IV. 1.) Bottom, in his bewilderment managed to speak of his dream, (iv. 1.) " The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was." Yet it got into the Stationers' Register as " Bottom's Dream." The lovers too had dreams which they... | |
| Henry Caldwell Cook - 1917 - 420 pages
...our puny modern standpoint Bottom's blunders in speaking would be an impermissible exaggeration. " The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was." Why, it is absurdly overdone, is it not ? Mistress Quickly and Dogberry and Slender and many others... | |
| Sue Jennings - 1992 - 158 pages
...what would life be then but despair?' Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling: trans. Hannay 1985, Penguin. 5. 'the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was!' Bottom in A Midsummer Night 's Dream. Bibliography References cited in the text Bachelard, G., 1968,... | |
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