Shakespere's A Midsummer Night's DreamLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 111 pages |
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... enter- tainment ? Oh , something to pass the time gayly at a wedding or after a big dinner . I have heard that this very play of A Midsummer Night's Dream ' was written originally to be played as part of the ceremonies at a wedding . I ...
... enter- tainment ? Oh , something to pass the time gayly at a wedding or after a big dinner . I have heard that this very play of A Midsummer Night's Dream ' was written originally to be played as part of the ceremonies at a wedding . I ...
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... Enter THESEUS , HIPPOLYTA , PHILOSTRATE , and Attend- ants . THE . Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour 3 Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in Another moon : but , O , methinks , how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers my ...
... Enter THESEUS , HIPPOLYTA , PHILOSTRATE , and Attend- ants . THE . Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour 3 Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in Another moon : but , O , methinks , how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers my ...
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... Enter EGEUS , 5 HERMIA , LYSANDER , and DEMETRIUS . 20 EGE . Happy be Theseus , our renowned duke ! THE . Thanks , good Egeus : what's the news with thee ? EGE . Full of vexation come I , with complaint Against my child , my daughter ...
... Enter EGEUS , 5 HERMIA , LYSANDER , and DEMETRIUS . 20 EGE . Happy be Theseus , our renowned duke ! THE . Thanks , good Egeus : what's the news with thee ? EGE . Full of vexation come I , with complaint Against my child , my daughter ...
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... Enter HELENA . HER . God speed fair Helena ! whither away ? HEL . Call you me fair ? that fair again unsay . Demetrius loves your fair : 5 O happy fair ! 170 180 ' An allusion to the two arrows of Cupid mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses ...
... Enter HELENA . HER . God speed fair Helena ! whither away ? HEL . Call you me fair ? that fair again unsay . Demetrius loves your fair : 5 O happy fair ! 170 180 ' An allusion to the two arrows of Cupid mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses ...
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... Enter QUINCE , SNUG , BOTTOM , FLUTE , SNOUT , and STARVELING . QUIN . Is all our company here ? BOT . You were best to call them generally , ' man by man , according to the scrip.8 66 1 Shakespeare , in “ Wings and no eyes , ” was ...
... Enter QUINCE , SNUG , BOTTOM , FLUTE , SNOUT , and STARVELING . QUIN . Is all our company here ? BOT . You were best to call them generally , ' man by man , according to the scrip.8 66 1 Shakespeare , in “ Wings and no eyes , ” was ...
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15 East Sixteenth Abbott actors Athenian Athens awake Bankside bless Bottom brier Burbadge called dance dear DEIGHTON Demetrius dote doth edition editors Egeus English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes F. G. Fleay fair fairy fear flowers folios follow Furness gentle give Globe Globe Theatre hast hate hath hear heart Helena Hermia Hippolyta lady lion LONGMANS look lord Love's lovers Lysander Master meaning Midsummer Night's Dream moon Moonshine mounsieur Mustardseed never night Oberon Paul's Peaseblossom Peter Quince Philostrate play players prologue PUCK Pyramus quarto queen QUIN Re-enter Robin Goodfellow SCENE School Grammar seems sense Shakespeare Shakspere Shakspere's sleep SNOUT SNUG speak sport stage suggested sweet syllable theatres thee Theseus things Thisby Thisby's thou TITA Titania to-day true wall wonder wood word WRIGHT
Popular passages
Page 84 - 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 84 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
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 79 - 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 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 30 - 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 110 - 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 87 - 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, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.
Page 88 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; •• Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear?
Page 21 - On her left breast A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops I...