A Midsummer-night's Dream: With Introd., Notes, Examination Papers, & Plan of Preparation. (Selected.)E. Maynard & Company, 1890 - 113 pages |
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... children mainly owe their heritage of an imaginative world of fascinating beauty , peopled by ideal forms full of sportive kindliness to be regarded with perpetual interest and love instead of repugnance and terror . In our play the ...
... children mainly owe their heritage of an imaginative world of fascinating beauty , peopled by ideal forms full of sportive kindliness to be regarded with perpetual interest and love instead of repugnance and terror . In our play the ...
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... child , my daughter Hermia . Stand forth , Demetrius . — My noble lord , This man hath my consent to marry her . Stand forth , Lysander : -and , my gracious duke , This hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child . Thou , thou , Lysander ...
... child , my daughter Hermia . Stand forth , Demetrius . — My noble lord , This man hath my consent to marry her . Stand forth , Lysander : -and , my gracious duke , This hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child . Thou , thou , Lysander ...
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... child : From Athens is her house remote seven leagues ; 160 And she respects me as her only son . There , gentle Hermia , may I marry thee ; And to that place the sharp Athenian law Cannot pursue us . If thou lov'st me then , Steal ...
... child : From Athens is her house remote seven leagues ; 160 And she respects me as her only son . There , gentle Hermia , may I marry thee ; And to that place the sharp Athenian law Cannot pursue us . If thou lov'st me then , Steal ...
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... child , Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd . As waggish boys in game themselves forswear , So the boy Love is perjur'd everywhere : For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne , He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine ; And when ...
... child , Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd . As waggish boys in game themselves forswear , So the boy Love is perjur'd everywhere : For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne , He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine ; And when ...
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... child Knight of his train , to trace the forests wild ; But she perforce withholds the loved boy , Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy : And now they never meet in grove or green , By fountain clear , or spangled starlight ...
... child Knight of his train , to trace the forests wild ; But she perforce withholds the loved boy , Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy : And now they never meet in grove or green , By fountain clear , or spangled starlight ...
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Page 36 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music ? Puck.
Page 35 - Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which. And this same progeny of evils comes From our debate, from our dissension; We are their parents and original.
Page 32 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 75 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Page 94 - If we shadows have offended, Think but this, (and all is mended,) That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend ; If you pardon, we will mend.
Page 116 - We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem ; So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart : Two of the first, like coats in heraldry Due but to one, and crowned with one...
Page 12 - Essex, who was married in 1 590 ; but from what has been said above, it will be seen that the second date is too early, the other too late. It was probably acted before Elizabeth. The praise of " single blessedness
Page 80 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling.
Page 81 - Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination...
Page 27 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind...