 | William Shakespeare - 1885 - 198 pages
...is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, — but man is but a patch'd fool,19 if he will offer to say what methought I had. The...to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to re18 "As the jewel which one finds is his own and not his own; his own, unless the loser claims it."... | |
 | W. May Phelps, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson - Actors - 1886 - 462 pages
...about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had. — The eye of man hath not heard,...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.' he will doubtless make the essay. In these words, Bottom — as rendered by the actor — is taken... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 236 pages
...Oberon! what visions have I seen ! Methought, I was enamour'd of an ass. Act 4, Sc. 1, I. 73. BOTTOM. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. Act 4, Sc. l, 1.210. THESEUS. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact:... | |
 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1890 - 296 pages
...of the authorship of The Contention and True Tragedy, he must be left to grow out of it." Verily, " the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report " the littleness of any man not a Furnivall ; or the insignificance of any opinion, on however open... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1891 - 568 pages
...pierce the ear of grief. Ibid. v. 2. And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy. Mid. N. Dr. iv. i. `N` - Ibid. iv. i. Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants. T. of Shr. iv. 4.' My face so thin, That... | |
 | William Winter - Literary Criticism - 1892 - 314 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 Winter - Literary Criticism - 1892 - 312 pages
...if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought 1 was, and methought I had — But man is but a patched...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 - Athens (Greece) - 1894 - 140 pages
...Starveling ! God 's my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep ! I have had a most rare vision. I have 210 had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write 220 a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I will... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 184 pages
...bellows - mender ! Snont, the tinker ! Starveling ! God's my life,' stolen hence, and left me asleep ! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past...to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.7 I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of e this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1901 - 140 pages
...Starveling ! God 's my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep ! I have had a most rare vision. I have 2I0 had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write 220 a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I will... | |
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I have had a most rare vision. I have 210 had a dream, 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 — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, — and methought I had,... 
