| Montague Ullman, Claire Limmer - 1999 - 298 pāgines
...—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 what methought I had. The...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... | |
| Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 284 pāgines
...Shakespearean 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...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (MND, 4. 2.210- 14). M And as a deformation of the text of St. Paul, Bottom's formulation would have... | |
| Lynne Magnusson - 1999 - 235 pāgines
...Furthermore, it is possible that Bottom's frustrated effort in A Midsummer Night's Dream to express what "eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report" (4.1.209-11) was suggested by the mismatched words concerning inexpressibility that open a letter of... | |
| John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pāgines
...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 what methought I had. The...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.201-10) Well, I — as expounding ass and patched fool for the occasion — will venture to say... | |
| Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pāgines
...Bishops' Bible (1568) or the Geneva Bible (1557). 'The eye of man hath not heard', says Bottom earnestly, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able...ballad of this dream. It shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom (rv. i. 208-13). 1* In farce, Shakespeare can allude easily to matters... | |
| Michael O'Connell - 2000 - 209 pāgines
...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...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4. 1 .21 1-14). 27 Such a deformation of a text of St. Paul (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) would have an easily... | |
| Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pāgines
...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. The...ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end ofa play, before de Duke. Peradventure,... | |
| Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pāgines
...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, what methought I had. The...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... | |
| Irving Singer - 2001 - 252 pāgines
...— 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...ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom. — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene... | |
| Michael Malone - 2001 - 361 pāgines
...6 5 For Barry Hoffman "Round up the usual suspects." The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of than hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his...ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the duke;... | |
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