| William Leete Stone - American fiction - 1834 - 266 pages
...was, and methought I had— but man is hut a patched fool, if he will oflfer to say what methooght I had. The eye of man hath not heard ; the ear of...Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall he called Bottom's dream, because it hath no bottom."—SHAKSPEARE. I AM not one of those fortunate... | |
| 1838 - 500 pages
...expressive both of the reminiscences and of the transfer of the senses in our somnambulists of the day. " Methought I was — there is no man can tell what....dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad (pamphlet 1) of this dream; it shall be called Bottom's dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...methought I had. The eye of ma.n hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is notable and self-congratulations on the happiness of discovering...have likewise borrowed the author's life from Rowe, haih no bottom ; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the duke : Peradventure, to... | |
| American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1880 - 726 pages
...examining them one feels tempted to exclaim with Bottom, when he awoke from his asinine hallucination, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man' hath...tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report" what these remarkable' figures were intended to convey. Monsters of every conceivable age, shape, size,... | |
| American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1880
...examining them one feels tempted to exclaim with Bottom, when he awoke from his asinine hallucination, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report" what these remarkable figures were intended to convey. [Phillips. Monsters of every conceivable age, shape,... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 138 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." Warner, in his manuscript annotations on Shakespeare, says, that " this seems to be a humorous allusion... | |
| William Shakespeare - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) - 1842 - 562 pages
...livery stand, or by the bottle Get you your hay, your oats by peck or pottle ?" ACT IV. Sc. I. " I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, —...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." Warner, in his manuscript annotations on Shakespeare, says, that " this seems to be a humorous allusion... | |
| Literature - 1911 - 856 pages
...and met bought l had1 — but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought l bad. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, his heart to report what my dream was, i will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. The... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 540 pages
...yay avyiyya xifxov rov foiyov THHIJTCOV ? Surely, the doctrine of an ancient savant, one Bottom, " The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report," — opposed although it has been in these Mesmeric days, — is now incontrovertibly established. Again... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 530 pages
...rov %oigov noirjitov ? Surely, the doctrine of an ancient savant, one Bottom, " The eye of man bath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand...his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report," — opposed although it has been in these Mesmeric days, — is now incontrovertibly established. Again... | |
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