 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 318 pages
...if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath no not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue...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... | |
 | Matilda Piro - Great Britain - 1892 - 336 pages
...flower of unconscious humour, is at his height of significance in his moment of supreme illusion : "I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." The whole philosophy of the subject, comically stated, is there. A serious statement of it is in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1910 - 156 pages
...he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Me- . thought I was — and methought I had, — but man is but...ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince... | |
 | 1911 - 844 pages
...past the wit of man to say what dream it was, man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — and methought I had! — but man...hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, bis heart to report what my dream was, I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. The... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 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 - Actors - 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 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 - Dramatists, English - 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 - Drama in education - 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... | |
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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. 
