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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... earth , And ere a man hath power to say , Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up ; 96 So quick bright things come to confusion . 97 150 HERMIA If then true lovers have been ever crossed , It stands as an edict in destiny.98 Then ...
... earth , And ere a man hath power to say , Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up ; 96 So quick bright things come to confusion . 97 150 HERMIA If then true lovers have been ever crossed , It stands as an edict in destiny.98 Then ...
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... earth , as if tying a belt ( girdle ) on it , in forty minutes " . 113 the soul of love - " the deepest love " . 114 render up her page - " give up her boy attendant ( page ) " . IIS I am invisible . This tells the audience that Oberon ...
... earth , as if tying a belt ( girdle ) on it , in forty minutes " . 113 the soul of love - " the deepest love " . 114 render up her page - " give up her boy attendant ( page ) " . IIS I am invisible . This tells the audience that Oberon ...
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... earth , from earth to heaven , And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , ' the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , 10 and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.11 Such tricks hath strong imagination That ...
... earth , from earth to heaven , And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , ' the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , 10 and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.11 Such tricks hath strong imagination That ...
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