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| Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...Bishops' Bible (1568) or the Geneva Bible (1557). 'The eye of man hath not heard', says Bottom earnestly, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad... | |
| Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...some of the words in the wrong places, but his stupendous description of his no less stupendous dream ('The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen . . .') is one of the great set pieces in Shakespeare's plays (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4.1.208-9).... | |
| Michael Gelven - Drama - 2000 - 184 pages
...artistic form to his wonder. Carried away with what he remembers, he assures us, the audience, that: "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man, hath not seen ..." anything quite like what he experienced. This garbled syntax often produces at least a chuckle... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 148 pages
...patched fool if he will offer to say what 208 methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the 209 ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to 210 taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince... | |
| Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...was -there is no man can tell what. Methought I wasand methought I had -but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. The...hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a... | |
| Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had - but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say, what methought I had. The...hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 134 pages
...is no man can tell what. Methought I was — and methought I had — but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. The...hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's 210 hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was! I... | |
| Irving Singer - Philosophy - 2001 - 252 pages
...— George Santayana, letter to Charles P. Davis, April 3, 1936. I have had a most rare vision. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a... | |
| Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...phrase like Hamlet's 'There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow' (5.2.157-8), or Bottom's 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen . . .' (Dream 4.1.204-5), or, indeed, the very title Measure for Measure, with its multiple reverberations... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, — but "inn is but a patcht fool, t . JESSICA. Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,...father, you a daughter, lost. [Exit. Enter the Maskers G tongue to conceive, nor his heart to repon, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet... | |
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