 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 156 pages
...have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about 6 to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is...report, what my dream was.' I will get Peter Quince to wlSte _a ballad of * this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and... | |
 | Theresa Enos - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 836 pages
...(5.1 (. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom evokes the ineffable wonder of his dream in explaining, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1l. As these examples suggest, hypallage is a figure of arrangement that creates poetic leaps of... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...stumbling attempt to articulate his dream should paraphrase a celebrated passage from 1 Corinthians (2.9): "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). The original passage refers to the "hidden wisdom" of "the deep things of God" whose... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...that the story of eye and ear in that play doubles the comic plot of inversion and anarchic confusion: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). Given the chaotic realignment of faculties and their functions in Bottoms speech, it... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I had - but man is but a patched fool if...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.202-11) It is Bottom's sense in this speech that he has had an experience greater than he can... | |
 | Frans Jozef van Beeck - Catholic Church - 1997 - 450 pages
...was,—and methouglu I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methouglu I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was [cf. i Cor 2, 9. i2; Is 64, 4; 65, t7]. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it... | |
 | Drama - 1997 - 68 pages
...be a blundering fool to say what I thought I had. The eye of man has not heard, the ear of man has not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue...get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream, and it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream' because it had no bottom; and I will sing it at the end of... | |
 | David Solway - Education - 1997 - 340 pages
...educationally speaking, wambling about in that parody of I Corinthians 2:9, Bottom's discombobulated dream: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report ... It shall be called "Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom. 73 APPENDIX ONE Perhaps those teachers... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 352 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had — but man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had....conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.zo4-14)2 CLARENCE: Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower. . . . Methought that Gloucester... | |
 | Avraham Oz - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about [f] expound this dream. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream. It shall be called "Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom; and I will sing... | |
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I have had a most rare vision. I have 210 had a dream, past the wit of man to say 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 I had,... 
