A Midsummer Night's DreamNotes on the story, language, construction, and background accompany the text the comedy about romantic entanglements among humans and fairies. |
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Page 73
... bear , sometime a fire ; And neigh , and bark , and grunt , and roar , " and burn , Like horse , hound , hog , bear , fire , at every turn . BOTTOM [ Exit Why do they run away ? This is a knavery of them to make me afeard.42 Re - enter ...
... bear , sometime a fire ; And neigh , and bark , and grunt , and roar , " and burn , Like horse , hound , hog , bear , fire , at every turn . BOTTOM [ Exit Why do they run away ? This is a knavery of them to make me afeard.42 Re - enter ...
Page 86
... case my sorrow has not been paid " . The idea is that sleep is owing to sorrow like a debt owed by a bankrupt ; since sleep has not " paid up " , the sorrow grows harder to bear . 56 in some ... stay- " now sleep will pay 86 [ ACT THREE.
... case my sorrow has not been paid " . The idea is that sleep is owing to sorrow like a debt owed by a bankrupt ; since sleep has not " paid up " , the sorrow grows harder to bear . 56 in some ... stay- " now sleep will pay 86 [ ACT THREE.
Page 146
... bear . Working in the same way , the imagination of a man at night forms the idea of fear , and then creates fearful shapes , so that a bush he really sees becomes an imaginary bear . 14 told over- " told in detail " . Is And ... so ...
... bear . Working in the same way , the imagination of a man at night forms the idea of fear , and then creates fearful shapes , so that a bush he really sees becomes an imaginary bear . 14 told over- " told in detail " . Is And ... so ...
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