A Midsummer-night's Dream: With Introd., Notes, Examination Papers, & Plan of Preparation. (Selected.)E. Maynard & Company, 1890 - 113 pages |
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... lovers are graceful figures enough , but they do not touch us with the quick sympa- thies of fellow men and women , and we find ourselves wonderfully indifferent to their crossed loves and other perplexities . Duke Theseus and Hippolyta ...
... lovers are graceful figures enough , but they do not touch us with the quick sympa- thies of fellow men and women , and we find ourselves wonderfully indifferent to their crossed loves and other perplexities . Duke Theseus and Hippolyta ...
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... lovers have been ever cross'd , It stands as an edíct in destiny : Then let us teach our trial patience , Because it is a customary cross ; As due to love as thoughts , and dreams , and sighs , Wishes , and tears , poor fancy's ...
... lovers have been ever cross'd , It stands as an edíct in destiny : Then let us teach our trial patience , Because it is a customary cross ; As due to love as thoughts , and dreams , and sighs , Wishes , and tears , poor fancy's ...
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... lovers ' flights doth still conceal , — Through Athens ' gates have we devis'd to steal . Her . And in the wood , where often you and I Upon faint primrose - beds were wont to lie , Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet , There my ...
... lovers ' flights doth still conceal , — Through Athens ' gates have we devis'd to steal . Her . And in the wood , where often you and I Upon faint primrose - beds were wont to lie , Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet , There my ...
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... lover , or a tyrant ? Quin . A lover , that kills himself most gallant for love . Bot . That will ask some tears in the true per- forming of it : if I do it , let the audience look to some measure . their eyes ; I will move storms 28 A ...
... lover , or a tyrant ? Quin . A lover , that kills himself most gallant for love . Bot . That will ask some tears in the true per- forming of it : if I do it , let the audience look to some measure . their eyes ; I will move storms 28 A ...
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... lover is more condoling . Quin . Francis Flute , the bellows - mender . Flu . Here , Peter Quince . Quin . You must take Thisby on you . Flu . What is Thisby ? a wandering knight ? Quin . It is the lady that Pyramus must love . Flu ...
... lover is more condoling . Quin . Francis Flute , the bellows - mender . Flu . Here , Peter Quince . Quin . You must take Thisby on you . Flu . What is Thisby ? a wandering knight ? Quin . It is the lady that Pyramus must love . Flu ...
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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...