 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...come upon me. Act it. Se. i. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. ibid. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream, was. ibid. 1 Act i¡. se. 2 in Singer and Knight. 2 See Chapman, pape 36. • Trew as ateele. — CHAUCER... | |
 | William Winter - Actors - 1916 - 610 pages
...dream it was : — Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought...to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream EARLY REPRESENTATIONS.— BRITISH STAGE. Nothing is known of the acting of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1174 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, — and methought I had, — but man is but 215 a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought...nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will 220 get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - Dramatists, English - 1916 - 376 pages
...vexation of a dream." — (IV. 1.) Bottom, in his bewilderment managed to speak of his dream, (iv. 1.) " The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was." Yet it got into the Stationers' Register as " Bottom's Dream." The lovers too had dreams which they... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1916 - 336 pages
...have with my ribs," — a cognate joke. And cp. Furness' note on III, l, 57.) MN Dream, IV, l, 216: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. Mucedorus, ed. Proescholdt, p. 33: I can keep my tongue from picking and stealing, and my hands from... | |
 | Henry Caldwell Cook - Drama in education - 1917 - 420 pages
...our puny modern standpoint Bottom's blunders in speaking would be an impermissible exaggeration. " The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was." Why, it is absurdly overdone, is it not ? Mistress Quickly and Dogberry and Slender and many others... | |
 | Stephen Paget - 1921 - 168 pages
...what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. That is how I receive the gifts of the country; with enjoyment, but not with insight. It is not for... | |
 | Arthur Acheson, Edward Thurlow Leeds - Bird family - 1922 - 714 pages
...what dream it was : man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, — and...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. 7 will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Athens (Greece) - 1924 - 212 pages
...Methought I was — there is no man can tell what....[^ passes his hand across his head, touching his ears] Methought I was, and methought I had.. ..but man is...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I wfll get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream; because it... | |
 | St. John Greer Ervine - Drama - 1924 - 224 pages
...dream. Methought I was—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...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." The play is a moonshine piece, and as plays go, it is ill-contrived and, perhaps, silly, but it is... | |
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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. 
