Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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... mortals are painted as a poetical enchantment , which , by a contrary enchantment , may be immediately suspended and then renewed again . The different parts of the plot - the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta , Oberon and Titania's ...
... mortals are painted as a poetical enchantment , which , by a contrary enchantment , may be immediately suspended and then renewed again . The different parts of the plot - the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta , Oberon and Titania's ...
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... mortals be ! " Ariel cleaves the air , and executes his mission with the zeal of a winged messen- ger ; Puck is borne along on his fairy errand like the light and glittering gossamer before the breeze . He is indeed a most epicurean ...
... mortals be ! " Ariel cleaves the air , and executes his mission with the zeal of a winged messen- ger ; Puck is borne along on his fairy errand like the light and glittering gossamer before the breeze . He is indeed a most epicurean ...
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... mortals ! " It is astonishing that Shakespeare should be considered , not only by foreigners , but by many of our own critics , as a gloomy and heavy writer , who painted nothing but " gorgons and hydras , and chimeras dire . " His ...
... mortals ! " It is astonishing that Shakespeare should be considered , not only by foreigners , but by many of our own critics , as a gloomy and heavy writer , who painted nothing but " gorgons and hydras , and chimeras dire . " His ...
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... mortals ; if he wished , in their es- sential office as bringers of dreams , to fashion them in their nature as personified dreams , he carried out this object in wonderful harmony both as regards their actions and their condition . The ...
... mortals ; if he wished , in their es- sential office as bringers of dreams , to fashion them in their nature as personified dreams , he carried out this object in wonderful harmony both as regards their actions and their condition . The ...
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... mortals to infidelity ; the effects of the mis- takes which they have contrived make no impression on their minds ; they feel no sympathy for the deep affliction of the lovers , but only delight and marvel over their mistakes and their ...
... mortals to infidelity ; the effects of the mis- takes which they have contrived make no impression on their minds ; they feel no sympathy for the deep affliction of the lovers , but only delight and marvel over their mistakes and their ...
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