A Midsummer Night's DreamMix-ups and mishaps occur when Oberon, the King of the Fairies, doses his sleeping wife with a magical potion that causes her to fall in love with the first living thing she sees upon awakening. |
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... sport of their whims and fancies , a fact which is much altered when we come to Shakspere's use of fairy - land again in his Tempest , where the aerial beings are but ministers of the wise man's rule for the highest ends.1 The finest ...
... sport of their whims and fancies , a fact which is much altered when we come to Shakspere's use of fairy - land again in his Tempest , where the aerial beings are but ministers of the wise man's rule for the highest ends.1 The finest ...
Page 37
... sport . Therefore the winds , piping to us in vain , As in revenge , have sucked up from the sea Contagious fogs , which , falling in the land , Have every pelting river made so proud , That they have overborne their continents ; The ox ...
... sport . Therefore the winds , piping to us in vain , As in revenge , have sucked up from the sea Contagious fogs , which , falling in the land , Have every pelting river made so proud , That they have overborne their continents ; The ox ...
Page 62
... sport , Forsook his scene , and entered in a brake , When I did him at this advantage take ; An ass's nowl I fixed on his head : Anon , his Thisbe must be answered , And forth my mimic comes . When they him spy As wild geese that the ...
... sport , Forsook his scene , and entered in a brake , When I did him at this advantage take ; An ass's nowl I fixed on his head : Anon , his Thisbe must be answered , And forth my mimic comes . When they him spy As wild geese that the ...
Page 67
... sport alone ; And those things do best please me That befall preposterously . Enter LYSANDER and HELENA Lys . Why should you think that I should woo in scorn ? Scorn and derision never come in tears : Look , when I vow , I weep ; and ...
... sport alone ; And those things do best please me That befall preposterously . Enter LYSANDER and HELENA Lys . Why should you think that I should woo in scorn ? Scorn and derision never come in tears : Look , when I vow , I weep ; and ...
Page 69
... sport . : Lys . You are unkind , Demetrius ; be not so ; For you love Hermia ; this you know I know And here , with all good will , with all my heart , In Hermia's love I yield you up my part ; And yours of Helena to me bequeath Whom I ...
... sport . : Lys . You are unkind , Demetrius ; be not so ; For you love Hermia ; this you know I know And here , with all good will , with all my heart , In Hermia's love I yield you up my part ; And yours of Helena to me bequeath Whom I ...
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