Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamLeach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1895 - 204 pages |
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ABBOTT alliteration Athenian Athens better Bottom Bottom's charm Cobweb comedy COWDEN-CLARKE Cupid dance Demetrius doth Duke Edited EGEUS elfin Elizabethan elves emendation English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Faery fair Fairy Queen flower FLUTE folio reading FURNESS gentle give grammatical notes green HALLIWELL hast hate hath hear heart Helena Hermia Hippolyta hounds King lady lion look lord lovers LYSANDER Lysander's maid Meaning Merchant of Venice merry Midsummer-Night's Dream modern equivalent Moon Moonshine mortals Mustard-seed never Nick Bottom night Note the alliteration o'er Oberon original texts read passage PEASEBLOSSOM Peter Quince PHILOSTRATE play poet poetic Prologue Puck Pyramus and Thisbe Qq read quartos read Re-enter roar Robin Goodfellow Scan the verse scansion SCENE Shakespeare sing sleep SNOUT Snug song speak speech sport Starveling sweet textual notes thee Theseus things Thisbe's thou Titania wall wood word WRIGHT Воттом
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Page 45 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page 45 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 184 - And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant" and erring" spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 203 - QUEEN and Huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy...
Page 95 - Such tricks hath strong imagination ; That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ! Hip.
Page 184 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Page 103 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 179 - O, never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify. As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie...
Page 111 - If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
Page 31 - War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.