Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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Page 15
... Titania , and Robin Good- fellow were familiar personages in the popular fairy mythol- ogy of the time , but Shakespeare has made them peculiarly The fairy literature of that day has almost entire- ly perished , and the few fragments ...
... Titania , and Robin Good- fellow were familiar personages in the popular fairy mythol- ogy of the time , but Shakespeare has made them peculiarly The fairy literature of that day has almost entire- ly perished , and the few fragments ...
Page 21
... Titania's quarrel , the flight of the two pair of lovers , and the theatri- cal manœuvres of the mechanics - are so lightly and happily interwoven that they seem necessary to each other for the formation of a whole . Oberon is desirous ...
... Titania's quarrel , the flight of the two pair of lovers , and the theatri- cal manœuvres of the mechanics - are so lightly and happily interwoven that they seem necessary to each other for the formation of a whole . Oberon is desirous ...
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... Titania gives to the latter- " the human mortals ! " It is astonishing that Shakespeare should be considered , not ... Titania's description of her fairy train , or her disputes with Oberon about the Indian boy , or Puck's account of ...
... Titania gives to the latter- " the human mortals ! " It is astonishing that Shakespeare should be considered , not ... Titania's description of her fairy train , or her disputes with Oberon about the Indian boy , or Puck's account of ...
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... Titania " rounding the hairy temples " of the self - satisfied fool- With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers . All this profusion of pure poetry and droll reality is worked up with the dramatic skill of a practised artist , in ...
... Titania " rounding the hairy temples " of the self - satisfied fool- With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers . All this profusion of pure poetry and droll reality is worked up with the dramatic skill of a practised artist , in ...
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... Titania's doat- ing on the metamorphosed weaver , and on his calling for a repast of sweet peas . His animal spirits must have bounded with the hunter's joy , while he wrote Theseus's description of his well - tuned dogs and of the ...
... Titania's doat- ing on the metamorphosed weaver , and on his calling for a repast of sweet peas . His animal spirits must have bounded with the hunter's joy , while he wrote Theseus's description of his well - tuned dogs and of the ...
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