Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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Page 25
... common with all his comedies , a perpetual inter- mixture of the essentially poetical with the purely laughable , yet is distinguished from all the rest by being ( as Coleridge has happily defined its character ) " one continued ...
... common with all his comedies , a perpetual inter- mixture of the essentially poetical with the purely laughable , yet is distinguished from all the rest by being ( as Coleridge has happily defined its character ) " one continued ...
Page 36
... common calamity of dramatists . They are all but dealers in shadowy representations of life , and if the worst among them can set the mind of the spectator at work , he is equal to the best . " Maginn has missed the more important ...
... common calamity of dramatists . They are all but dealers in shadowy representations of life , and if the worst among them can set the mind of the spectator at work , he is equal to the best . " Maginn has missed the more important ...
Page 39
... common illusion which marries gracious qualities to absurd companionship . Says Puck , " Those things do best please me That befall preposterously . " But this is fleeting . Shakspeare soon breaks the spell in which some of his most ...
... common illusion which marries gracious qualities to absurd companionship . Says Puck , " Those things do best please me That befall preposterously . " But this is fleeting . Shakspeare soon breaks the spell in which some of his most ...
Page 74
... common rate : The summer still doth tend upon my state ; And I do love thee : therefore , go with me . I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee , And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep , And sing while thou on pressed flowers ...
... common rate : The summer still doth tend upon my state ; And I do love thee : therefore , go with me . I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee , And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep , And sing while thou on pressed flowers ...
Page 93
... common sleep of all these five the sense . Titania . Music , ho ! music , such as charmeth sleep ! 80 [ Music , still . Puck . Now , when thou wak'st , with thine own fool's eyes peep . Oberon . Sound , music ! Come , my queen , take ...
... common sleep of all these five the sense . Titania . Music , ho ! music , such as charmeth sleep ! 80 [ Music , still . Puck . Now , when thou wak'st , with thine own fool's eyes peep . Oberon . Sound , music ! Come , my queen , take ...
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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