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" The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 365
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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The Variety of Dream Experience: Expanding Our Ways of Working with Dreams ...

Montague Ullman, Claire Limmer - 1999 - 298 pages
...—there is no man can tell what. Methought I was—and methought I had—but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. The...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." It is not our "I am" systems to which our dreams refer; it is our "I am not" systems to which our dreams...
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Shakespeare in the Theatre

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 284 pages
...Shakespearean judgment of the relative importance of the various senses to the theatrical experience: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (MND, 4. 2.210- 14). M And as a deformation of the text of St. Paul, Bottom's formulation would have...
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Shakespeare and Social Dialogue: Dramatic Language and Elizabethan Letters

Lynne Magnusson - 1999 - 221 pages
...Furthermore, it is possible that Bottom's frustrated effort in A Midsummer Night's Dream to express what "eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report" (4.1.209-11) was suggested by the mismatched words concerning inexpressibility that open a letter of...
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Henry V, War Criminal?: And Other Shakespeare Puzzles

John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pages
...there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had— but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. The...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.201-10) Well, I — as expounding ass and patched fool for the occasion — will venture to say...
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Shakespeare : A Life: A Life

Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pages
...Bishops' Bible (1568) or the Geneva Bible (1557). 'The eye of man hath not heard', says Bottom earnestly, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able...ballad of this dream. It shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom (rv. i. 208-13). 1* In farce, Shakespeare can allude easily to matters...
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The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England

Michael O'Connell - 2000 - 209 pages
...words as a judgment of the relative importance of the various senses to the theatrical experience: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4. 1 .21 1-14). 27 Such a deformation of a text of St. Paul (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) would have an easily...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...was -there is no man can tell what. Methought I wasand methought I had -but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. The...ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end ofa play, before de Duke. Peradventure,...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had - but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say, what methought I had. The...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream ; it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing...
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Feeling and Imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence

Irving Singer - 2001 - 252 pages
...— George Santayana, letter to Charles P. Davis, April 3, 1936. I have had a most rare vision. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom. — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene...
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Uncivil Seasons: A Justin & Cuddy Novel

Michael Malone - 2001 - 361 pages
...6 5 For Barry Hoffman "Round up the usual suspects." The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of than hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his...ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the duke;...
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