Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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... beauty and savour of sweet flowers , and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kinds . " We have abundant materials . for a distinct and complete account of the May - day sports in the happy times of old England ; but they ...
... beauty and savour of sweet flowers , and with the harmony of birds praising God in their kinds . " We have abundant materials . for a distinct and complete account of the May - day sports in the happy times of old England ; but they ...
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... beauty of description than in the whole range of French poetry put together . What we mean is this , that we will produce out of that single play ten passages to which we do not think any ten passages in the works of the French poets ...
... beauty of description than in the whole range of French poetry put together . What we mean is this , that we will produce out of that single play ten passages to which we do not think any ten passages in the works of the French poets ...
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... beauty of her own child ? No ! nor could Shakespeare be unconscious that posterity would doat on this , one of his loveliest children . * Quoted by Verplanck , vol . ii . p . 49 of M. N. D. How he must have chuckled and laughed in the ...
... beauty of her own child ? No ! nor could Shakespeare be unconscious that posterity would doat on this , one of his loveliest children . * Quoted by Verplanck , vol . ii . p . 49 of M. N. D. How he must have chuckled and laughed in the ...
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... beauty , her " swimming gait , " and her powers of imitation . When she awakes from her vision there is no reflection . " Methought I was enamoured of an ass , " she says , " O , how mine eyes do loathe his visage now ! " She is only ...
... beauty , her " swimming gait , " and her powers of imitation . When she awakes from her vision there is no reflection . " Methought I was enamoured of an ass , " she says , " O , how mine eyes do loathe his visage now ! " She is only ...
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... beauty . Thus , in the spirit of the fairies , in which this sense of the beautiful is so refined , it is intensely ludicrous that the elegant Titania should fall in love with an ass's head . The only pain which agitates these beings is ...
... beauty . Thus , in the spirit of the fairies , in which this sense of the beautiful is so refined , it is intensely ludicrous that the elegant Titania should fall in love with an ass's head . The only pain which agitates these beings is ...
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1st folio 1st quarto 2d quarto allusion Athenian Athens beauty Ben Jonson Bottom called Chaucer Cobweb Coll comedy Cymb dance death Demetrius doth Duke early eds edition Egeus Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairy fancy fear flowers Flute folio reading folios gentle give Golding's grace Halliwell quotes Halliwell remarks Hanmer hast hath heart Helena Hermia Hippolyta Johnson later folios Lear lion look lord lovers Lysander Macb means merry Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton moon Moonshine mortals mounsieur Mustardseed never night o'er Oberon Ovid passage Peaseblossom Peter Quince Philostrate play Plutarch poet prologue Puck Pyramus and Thisbe quarto reading queen Quince Rich Robin Goodfellow Rolfe's says SCENE Schmidt sense Shakespeare Shakspere sleep Snout sometimes Sonn speak Spenser spirit sport Steevens quotes sweet Temp thee Theo Theseus things Thisby's thou Titania tongue troth unto wall Warb wood woodbine word