 | James Hamilton Fennell - 1862 - 60 pages
...passages to which I allude serve only to show the superiority of Shakespeare's boundless genius. MERCUTIO. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. EOMEO AND JULIET.— ACT I., SCKNE 4. Mercutin. — Oh, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you. She is...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 404 pages
...what was yours ? Mer. That dreamers often lie. -Bom. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape...as they lie asleep : Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1862 - 540 pages
...was yours ? Mer. That dreamers often lie. Rom. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you. She...of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Over men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...ROMEO AND JULIET.— ACT I., SOEHR 4. Mercutia. — Oh, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with yon. She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the ivings of grasshoppers ; The traces,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 578 pages
...dream things tme. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mao hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; J and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
 | 442 pages
...of fairies the name of MAB, though no one, except Drayton, mentions her as the wife of OBERON — " O then, I see, Queen MAB hath been with you, She is...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...LiTB; NOBE; OBSC; PoEL-2 Romeo and Juliet 141 O, then, I see Queen Mab halh been wilh you. She is ihe fetch the little calf That's standing by the mother....long. — You come too. (1. 5-8) Provide, Provide 88 waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs. The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the... | |
 | Matthew C. Field - History - 1995 - 372 pages
...low thickets of 69 Mab the fairy queen, in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, is a busy midwife : ". . . Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the Fairies'...little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep." — Act I, scene 4. pine and scrubby oak formed a singularly pleasing contrast to the lofty and majestic... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...MBRCUTIO. That dreamers often lie. ROMEO. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. MERCUTIO. rable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome,...ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar Unte atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs;... | |
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She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners... 
