Shakespere's A Midsummer Night's DreamLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 111 pages |
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... looks like an announcement of a play . Yes , it is . This day , April 20 , 1600 , shall be acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Players , at the Globe Theatre , Bankside , a play , A Midsummer Night's Dream , by Will- iam Shakspere . ' There ...
... looks like an announcement of a play . Yes , it is . This day , April 20 , 1600 , shall be acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Players , at the Globe Theatre , Bankside , a play , A Midsummer Night's Dream , by Will- iam Shakspere . ' There ...
Page xii
... look down one of these crooked old lanes of houses with stories overhanging the street , some buildings tip- ping this way and some that , but all on one side bending toward those on the other , that if I could come at the dead of night ...
... look down one of these crooked old lanes of houses with stories overhanging the street , some buildings tip- ping this way and some that , but all on one side bending toward those on the other , that if I could come at the dead of night ...
Page xvii
... look , from the street , much different from any of the other buildings , except that it is longer . Come in through this big archway in the centre and you will see how it differs . There - you see the court- yard inside is a ...
... look , from the street , much different from any of the other buildings , except that it is longer . Come in through this big archway in the centre and you will see how it differs . There - you see the court- yard inside is a ...
Page xx
... look at him . Now come up on the stage with me . ' Do people sit on the stage during the play ? ' Why , of course . That is our cus- tom . I'll explain it to you in a minute . " Put the stools farther forward , Philip . I came here to ...
... look at him . Now come up on the stage with me . ' Do people sit on the stage during the play ? ' Why , of course . That is our cus- tom . I'll explain it to you in a minute . " Put the stools farther forward , Philip . I came here to ...
Page xxi
... look about you . Were you ever in a theatre like this ? You see , this stage is like a box , longer than it is wide , and lower than it is long or broad , run out from the back wall of the theatre into the pit made by the surround- ing ...
... look about you . Were you ever in a theatre like this ? You see , this stage is like a box , longer than it is wide , and lower than it is long or broad , run out from the back wall of the theatre into the pit made by the surround- ing ...
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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...