A Midsummer Night's Dream"Reflecting reality through dreams, A Midsummer Night's Dream encompasses a kaleidoscope of incidents. The play opens with the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta and walks the readers through the complicacies of love between four Athenian lovers"--Page 4 of cover. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 13
Page 21
... sport . Therefore the winds , piping to us in vain , As in revenge , have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs ; which , falling in the land , Have every petty 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 suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs ; which , falling in the land , Have every petty river made so proud That they have overborne their continents . The ox ...
Page 45
... sport , Forsook his scene and ent'red in a brake . When I did him at this advantage take , An ass's nole I fixed on his head . Anon his Thisby must be answered , 15 And forth my mimic comes . When they him spy , As wild geese that the ...
... sport , Forsook his scene and ent'red in a brake . When I did him at this advantage take , An ass's nole I fixed on his head . Anon his Thisby must be answered , 15 And forth my mimic comes . When they him spy , As wild geese that the ...
Page 50
... sport alone . And those things do best please me That befall preposterously . Enter Lysander and Helena . 120 Lys . Why should you think that I should woo in scorn ? Scorn and derision never come in tears . Look , when I vow , I weep ...
... sport alone . And those things do best please me That befall preposterously . Enter Lysander and Helena . 120 Lys . Why should you think that I should woo in scorn ? Scorn and derision never come in tears . Look , when I vow , I weep ...
Page 51
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 53
... sport , in spite of me . Injurious Hermia ! most ungrateful maid ! Have you conspir'd , have you with these contriv'd To bait me with this foul derision ? Is all the counsel that we two have shar'd , The sisters ' vows , the hours that ...
... sport , in spite of me . Injurious Hermia ! most ungrateful maid ! Have you conspir'd , have you with these contriv'd To bait me with this foul derision ? Is all the counsel that we two have shar'd , The sisters ' vows , the hours that ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actor art thou Athenian Athens awake bless Bottom Cobweb comedy dance dear death Demetrius dote doth Duke Egeus Enter Robin Goodfellow Exeunt Exit eyes eyne fairy fear flower Flute follow gentle give gleek gone grace hast thou hate hath hear heart Hermia Hippolyta hounds lady lantern lion lish look lord love thee love's lovers Lysander masque Master methinks Midsummer-Night's Dream moon Moonshine mounsieur murrain Mustardseed never Nick Bottom night Night's Dream nine men's morris o'er Oberon Ovid Peaseblossom Peter Quince Ph.D Philostrate play pray Professor of Eng Professor of English prologue Puck Pyramus and Thisby Qq Ff queen Quin Re-enter Robin Goodfellow roar Robin Goodfellow Robin Starveling SCENE scorn Shakespeare sing sixpence a day sleep Snout Snug speak sport Starveling sweet tell Theobald Theseus things Thisby's thou hast thou wak'st Tita Titania tongue true University unto vows wall wood
Popular passages
Page 24 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 93 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic ; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house : I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door.
Page 21 - These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Page xv - Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Page 78 - 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 ! Hip.
Page 93 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream...
Page 74 - 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 9 - 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 70 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge when you hear.
Page 53 - All schooldays' 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 an union in partition...