The Works of Shakespeare: A midsummer-night's dreamMethuen, 1905 |
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... lovers were to be made straight with fairy charms during slumber , night was chosen for them , and both day and night were woven together , and one potent glamour floated over all in the shadowy realm of a midsummer night's dream . " In ...
... lovers were to be made straight with fairy charms during slumber , night was chosen for them , and both day and night were woven together , and one potent glamour floated over all in the shadowy realm of a midsummer night's dream . " In ...
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... lovers . If Fleay's hypothesis be correct , may not this have some slight reference to the double wedding of 1594-95 ? William Stanley was the younger brother of Ferdinand , Lord Strange , and by the death of his father in September ...
... lovers . If Fleay's hypothesis be correct , may not this have some slight reference to the double wedding of 1594-95 ? William Stanley was the younger brother of Ferdinand , Lord Strange , and by the death of his father in September ...
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... lovers and their compli- cated rivalry in the play . It will not be forgotten , also , that the name of Philostrate , Theseus's " Master of the Revels , " is the name Arcite assumes in Chaucer's Tale , when he goes to Athens after his ...
... lovers and their compli- cated rivalry in the play . It will not be forgotten , also , that the name of Philostrate , Theseus's " Master of the Revels , " is the name Arcite assumes in Chaucer's Tale , when he goes to Athens after his ...
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... of Titania and the Athenian lovers . He may have got the suggestion from the Diana of Monte- mayor , since the Two Gentlemen of Verona , a play which undoubtedly preceded A Midsummer - Night's Dream , shows him INTRODUCTION xliii.
... of Titania and the Athenian lovers . He may have got the suggestion from the Diana of Monte- mayor , since the Two Gentlemen of Verona , a play which undoubtedly preceded A Midsummer - Night's Dream , shows him INTRODUCTION xliii.
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... lovers ) , the fairies , and the artisans , advances the hypo- thesis that the fairies are the primary conception of the piece , and their action the main or dominant action . The article so fully expresses my own views on the point ...
... lovers ) , the fairies , and the artisans , advances the hypo- thesis that the fairies are the primary conception of the piece , and their action the main or dominant action . The article so fully expresses my own views on the point ...
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Page 132 - 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 9 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 127 - Methought I was, and methought I had — but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. 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 127 - 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 94 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page 131 - 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 13 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 14 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 48 - 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 xxvi - The thrice three muses mourning for the death Of learning, late deceased in beggary.