Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper & Brothers, 1894 - 195 pages |
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... Steevens , " that the hint for this play was received from Chaucer's Knight's Tale , " but there is little resemblance between the tale and the play , except that Theseus and Hippolyta are characters in both , and that Philostrate is ...
... Steevens , " that the hint for this play was received from Chaucer's Knight's Tale , " but there is little resemblance between the tale and the play , except that Theseus and Hippolyta are characters in both , and that Philostrate is ...
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... Steevens quotes Chapman's Homer : " there the goodly plant lies withering out his grace . " Revenue . Accented by S. either on the penult or antepenult . Cf. line 158 below . See Gr . 490 . 7. Steep . " A similar use of the verb steep ...
... Steevens quotes Chapman's Homer : " there the goodly plant lies withering out his grace . " Revenue . Accented by S. either on the penult or antepenult . Cf. line 158 below . See Gr . 490 . 7. Steep . " A similar use of the verb steep ...
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... Steevens quotes Lyly's Midas ( 1592 ) : You bee all young and faire , endeavour to bee wise and vertuous ; that when , like roses , you shall fall from the stalke , you may be gathered , and put to the still . " Malone refers to Sonn ...
... Steevens quotes Lyly's Midas ( 1592 ) : You bee all young and faire , endeavour to bee wise and vertuous ; that when , like roses , you shall fall from the stalke , you may be gathered , and put to the still . " Malone refers to Sonn ...
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... Steevens quotes Ben Jonson , Poetaster : " Thou hast not collied thy face enough . " S. uses the word only here and in Oth . ii . 3. 206 , where the quartos have " coold . " 146. Spleen . " A sudden motion , a fit " ( Schmidt ) . S ...
... Steevens quotes Ben Jonson , Poetaster : " Thou hast not collied thy face enough . " S. uses the word only here and in Oth . ii . 3. 206 , where the quartos have " coold . " 146. Spleen . " A sudden motion , a fit " ( Schmidt ) . S ...
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... Steevens quotes Greene , Never too Late : " Though she were false to Menelaus , yet her fair made him brook her follies ; " and again : " Flora in tawny hid up all her flowers , And would not diaper the meads with fair . " 183. Lode ...
... Steevens quotes Greene , Never too Late : " Though she were false to Menelaus , yet her fair made him brook her follies ; " and again : " Flora in tawny hid up all her flowers , And would not diaper the meads with fair . " 183. Lode ...
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Page 111 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. 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...
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 58 - Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs ; which falling in the land, Have every pelting river made so proud, That they have overborne their continents : The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat ; and the green corn Hath rotted, ere his youth attain'da beard : The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrain flock...
Page 19 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend...
Page 137 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 94 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
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 in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems...
Page 60 - Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd thee once: The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Page 82 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart : Two of the first, like coats...
Page 63 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby ; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby : Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh ; So, good night, with lullaby.