 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 586 pages
...bellows-mender ! Snout, the tinker ! Starveling ! God's my life ! stolen hence, and left me asleep ! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, — past...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... | |
 | Sandor Goodhart - Music - 2000 - 306 pages
...(and returned to his wonted form), repeats the sentiments expressed by the other dreamers: "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was" (4. 1 .204-06). While all of these "dreams," in fact, happened (Titania was infatuated with an ass;... | |
 | Robert Weimann - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
..."stol'n hence" (204), he, alone on stage, tells the audience of his dream and how this dream surpasses "the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about [t'J expound this dream" (205-07). The dream transcends the poetics of "glass" or "mirror"; it is not... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...that worries him slightly is his dream, which has been too wondrous for his verbal capacity : I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the...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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...bellows-mender? Snout, the tinker? Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the...I was -there is no man can 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.... | |
 | Athens (Greece) - 2001 - 86 pages
...When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. (He stares around for a moment.) God's my life! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the...it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound his dream. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottom's Dream... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 134 pages
...bellows.mender? Snout the tinker? Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the...to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he 205 go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I... | |
 | A. James Reichley - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...fairies after being turned into a donkey by the impish Puck. He has his farcical aspect, but he also has "had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. ... I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream,' because... | |
 | Hilmar M. Pabel, Mark Vessey - History - 2002 - 424 pages
...bellows-mender? Snout the tinker? Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence, and left me asleep? - l have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...would, Acts little of his will. Claudius — Hamlet IV.v DREAMS: "Children of an idle brain" I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the...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... | |
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I have had a most rare vision. I have 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. 
