Shakespere's A Midsummer Night's DreamLongmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 111 pages |
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... tell you something of this Will- iam Shakspere , whom we think the foremost of our writers for the stage to - day . He is the son of a tradesman , and was born in Stratford - on - Avon in 1564. I have never heard much of his early life ...
... tell you something of this Will- iam Shakspere , whom we think the foremost of our writers for the stage to - day . He is the son of a tradesman , and was born in Stratford - on - Avon in 1564. I have never heard much of his early life ...
Page xiv
... telling you , - has drudged hard before any play really his own has made a great success . They begin by making over some old play that Henslowe or Burbadge wants to revive . They have been tinkering some of Marlowe's plays lately - not ...
... telling you , - has drudged hard before any play really his own has made a great success . They begin by making over some old play that Henslowe or Burbadge wants to revive . They have been tinkering some of Marlowe's plays lately - not ...
Page xvi
... tell each to have his work ready within forty- eight hours . That is why you hear of plays by three or four men , for instance , Munday , Chettle , Haughton , and Dek- ker . Each of them wrote an act , and then , after talking over the ...
... tell each to have his work ready within forty- eight hours . That is why you hear of plays by three or four men , for instance , Munday , Chettle , Haughton , and Dek- ker . Each of them wrote an act , and then , after talking over the ...
Page 14
... tell him of fair Hermia's flight : Then to the wood will he to - morrow night Pursue her ; and for this intelligence If I have thanks , it is a dear expense : But herein mean I to enrich my pain , To have his sight 5 thither and back ...
... tell him of fair Hermia's flight : Then to the wood will he to - morrow night Pursue her ; and for this intelligence If I have thanks , it is a dear expense : But herein mean I to enrich my pain , To have his sight 5 thither and back ...
Page 20
... telling the actors when to enter and to leave , the dramatist thought rather of the entrances and exits of the stages in theatres or halls in which his play might be given than of the places where the imaginations of the audience should ...
... telling the actors when to enter and to leave , the dramatist thought rather of the entrances and exits of the stages in theatres or halls in which his play might be given than of the places where the imaginations of the audience should ...
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Page 82 - 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.
Page 85 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact; One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman; the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt; The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling.
Page xxv - Weep with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Page 7 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 77 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near, Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 28 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 18 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be...
Page 108 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here, While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend.
Page 19 - On her left breast A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops I...
Page 34 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby ; lulla, lulla, lullaby ; Never harm, nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby.