Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1888 - 195 pages |
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Page 35
... be your imagination then , not theirs . He retorts with a joke on the vanity of actors , and the conversation is immediately changed . The meaning of the Duke is that , however we may laugh at the silliness of Bottom and INTRODUCTION . 35.
... be your imagination then , not theirs . He retorts with a joke on the vanity of actors , and the conversation is immediately changed . The meaning of the Duke is that , however we may laugh at the silliness of Bottom and INTRODUCTION . 35.
Page 36
... duke , however , Shakspere evidently does agree , namely , that it is the business of the dramatist to set the ... duke's mouth , the absolute necessity of the man in the moon being within his lanthorn . Shakspere as much as says , " If ...
... duke , however , Shakspere evidently does agree , namely , that it is the business of the dramatist to set the ... duke's mouth , the absolute necessity of the man in the moon being within his lanthorn . Shakspere as much as says , " If ...
Page 37
... Duke of Milan celebrates “ the force of heaven - bred poesy , " we may reasonably suppose that the poet might not have been quite just to one who was indiffer- ent to art . But now his self - mastery has increased , and therefore with ...
... Duke of Milan celebrates “ the force of heaven - bred poesy , " we may reasonably suppose that the poet might not have been quite just to one who was indiffer- ent to art . But now his self - mastery has increased , and therefore with ...
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... Duke of Athens . EGEUS , Father to Hermia . LYSANDER , DEMETRIUS , in love with Hermia . PHILOSTRATE , master of the revels to The- seus . QUINCE , a carpenter . SNUG , a joiner . BOTTOM , a weaver . FLUTE , a bellows - mender . SNOUT ...
... Duke of Athens . EGEUS , Father to Hermia . LYSANDER , DEMETRIUS , in love with Hermia . PHILOSTRATE , master of the revels to The- seus . QUINCE , a carpenter . SNUG , a joiner . BOTTOM , a weaver . FLUTE , a bellows - mender . SNOUT ...
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... duke ! 20 Theseus . Thanks , good Egeus : what's the news with thee ? Egeus . Full of vexation come I , with complaint Against my child , my daughter Hermia.- Stand forth , Demetrius . - My noble lord , This man hath my consent to marry ...
... duke ! 20 Theseus . Thanks , good Egeus : what's the news with thee ? Egeus . Full of vexation come I , with complaint Against my child , my daughter Hermia.- Stand forth , Demetrius . - My noble lord , This man hath my consent to marry ...
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Page 58 - Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound : And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 57 - These are the forgeries of jealousy : And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Page 112 - Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide: And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house: I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door.
Page 50 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 62 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine...
Page 97 - 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.
Page 38 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 162 - For mine own good, All causes shall give way : I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.
Page 97 - I have had a most rare vision. I have 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.
Page 181 - What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?