Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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Page 10
... leaves are greene . The winter's waste drives water ore the brim ; Upon the land great flotes of wood may swim . Nature thinks scorne to do hir dutie right , Because we have displeasde the Lord of Light . " Another passage which has ...
... leaves are greene . The winter's waste drives water ore the brim ; Upon the land great flotes of wood may swim . Nature thinks scorne to do hir dutie right , Because we have displeasde the Lord of Light . " Another passage which has ...
Page 21
... leaves , many - coloured flowers , and glittering insects ; in the human world they do but make sport child- ishly and waywardly , with their beneficent or noxious influ- Their most violent rage dissolves in good - natured raillery ...
... leaves , many - coloured flowers , and glittering insects ; in the human world they do but make sport child- ishly and waywardly , with their beneficent or noxious influ- Their most violent rage dissolves in good - natured raillery ...
Page 27
... leaves the strongest impression on my mind , that this miserable world must have , for once at least , contained a happy man . This play is so purely de- licious , so little intermixed with the painful passions from which poetry distils ...
... leaves the strongest impression on my mind , that this miserable world must have , for once at least , contained a happy man . This play is so purely de- licious , so little intermixed with the painful passions from which poetry distils ...
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... leave nothing to be sup- plied by the imagination . Wall must be plaistered ; Moon- shine must carry lanthorn and bush . And when Hippoly- ta , again becoming impatient of absurdity , exclaims , “ I am aweary of this moon ! would he ...
... leave nothing to be sup- plied by the imagination . Wall must be plaistered ; Moon- shine must carry lanthorn and bush . And when Hippoly- ta , again becoming impatient of absurdity , exclaims , “ I am aweary of this moon ! would he ...
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... leave the figure or disfigure it . Demetrius is a worthy gentleman . Hermia . So is Lysander . Theseus . In himself he is ; But in this kind , wanting your father's voice , The other must be held the worthier . Hermia . I would my ...
... leave the figure or disfigure it . Demetrius is a worthy gentleman . Hermia . So is Lysander . Theseus . In himself he is ; But in this kind , wanting your father's voice , The other must be held the worthier . Hermia . I would my ...
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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