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" 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. "
The tempest. A midsummer-night's dream. The two gentleman of Verona. The ... - Page 153
by William Shakespeare - 1747
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Shakespeare in the Theatre

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...experience: "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" (MND, 4. 2.210- 14). M And as a deformation of the text of St. Paul, Bottom's formulation would have...
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Shakespeare : A Life: A Life

Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...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...get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom (rv. i. 208-13). 16 In farce, Shakespeare...
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style

Bryan A. Garner - Americanisms - 2000 - 388 pages
...get their meanings tangled up. 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" (4.1.21114). Modern examples aren't hard to come by. One lawyer apparently mistook meretricious (=...
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Henry V, War Criminal?: And Other Shakespeare Puzzles

John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...had. 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. (4.1.201-10) Well, I — as expounding ass and patched fool for the occasion — will venture to say...
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The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England

Michael O'Connell - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 209 pages
...experience: "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" (4. 1 .21 1-14). 27 Such a deformation of a text of St. Paul (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) would have an easily...
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Shakespeare: la invención de lo humano

Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...had. 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...get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end ofa...
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Uncivil Seasons: A Justin & Cuddy Novel

Michael Malone - Fiction - 2001 - 361 pages
...suspects." The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of than hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what...get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of...
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Feeling and Imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence

Irving Singer - Philosophy - 2001 - 252 pages
.... . . 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...get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom. — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's...
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Who's who in Shakespeare

Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...had. 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 ballet of this dream ; it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing...
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The Values Connection

A. James Reichley - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...He has his farcical aspect, but he also has "had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. ... I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream,' because it hath no bottom." In The Tempest, perhaps the last play...
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