Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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Page 19
... comes before the spectators under the notion of a dream . " 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 ...
... comes before the spectators under the notion of a dream . " 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 ...
Page 21
... comes really to the aid of their fruitless amorous pain , their incon- stancy and jealousy , and restores fidelity to its own rights . The extremes of fanciful and vulgar are united , when the enchanted Titania awakes and falls in love ...
... comes really to the aid of their fruitless amorous pain , their incon- stancy and jealousy , and restores fidelity to its own rights . The extremes of fanciful and vulgar are united , when the enchanted Titania awakes and falls in love ...
Page 24
... come- dies , might have been lost by the carelessness of early editors , or the accidents of time , without any ... comes upon the ear , " with a dying fall , " in the intervals of the loud jollity of the Twelfth Night . But the ...
... come- dies , might have been lost by the carelessness of early editors , or the accidents of time , without any ... comes upon the ear , " with a dying fall , " in the intervals of the loud jollity of the Twelfth Night . But the ...
Page 29
... come , " following darkness , " as Puck says , " like a dream . " Airy and swift , like the moon , they circle the earth ; they avoid the sunlight without fearing it , and seek the darkness ; they love the moon , and dance in her beams ...
... come , " following darkness , " as Puck says , " like a dream . " Airy and swift , like the moon , they circle the earth ; they avoid the sunlight without fearing it , and seek the darkness ; they love the moon , and dance in her beams ...
Page 32
... witchcraft ; he enjoins that imagination should amend the play of the clowns , devoid as it is of all fancy . The real , that in this work of art has be- come " nothing , " and the " airy nothing 32 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
... witchcraft ; he enjoins that imagination should amend the play of the clowns , devoid as it is of all fancy . The real , that in this work of art has be- come " nothing , " and the " airy nothing 32 A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM .
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