 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...what. Methought I was, and methought I had— but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I 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... | |
 | Michael O'Connell - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 209 pages
...words as a judgment of the relative importance of the various senses to the theatrical 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... | |
 | Michael Gelven - Drama - 2000 - 184 pages
...artistic form to his wonder. Carried away with what he remembers, he assures us, the audience, that: "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man, hath not seen ..." anything quite like what he experienced. This garbled syntax often produces at least a chuckle... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...some of the words in the wrong places, but his stupendous description of his no less stupendous dream ('The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen . . .') is one of the great set pieces in Shakespeare's plays (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4.1.208-9).... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...tell what. Methought I wasand methought I had -but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I 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... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...what. Methought I was, and methought I had - but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say, what methought I 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... | |
 | Irving Singer - Philosophy - 2001 - 252 pages
...— George Santayana, letter to Charles P. Davis, April 3, 1936. I have had a most rare vision. . . . 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... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...phrase like Hamlet's 'There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow' (5.2.157-8), or Bottom's 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen . . .' (Dream 4.1.204-5), or, indeed, the very title Measure for Measure, with its multiple reverberations... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...what. Methought I was — and methought I had — but man is a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I 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... | |
 | Hilmar M. Pabel, Mark Vessey - History - 2002 - 424 pages
...what. Methought I was, and methought I had - but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I 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... | |
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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. 
