| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 256 pages
...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...man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, 'K"S man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...Power 203 by confusing sight and hearing in his bungled rendering of a passage from I Corinthians: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4.l.2II-l4). Despite its rich visual imagery, A Midsummer Night's Dream keeps reminding us that the... | |
| Montague Ullman, Claire Limmer - Psychology - 1999 - 298 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." It is not our "I am" systems to which our dreams refer; it is our "I am not" systems to which our dreams... | |
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