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" 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. "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Midsummer night's dream. Love's ... - Page 57
by William Shakespeare - 1850 - 38 pages
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was — and methought I had — but man is a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. Bottom— MND IV.i True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, — but "inn is but a patcht s b repon, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream: it shall be called...
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Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion

William Lad Sessions - Religion - 2002 - 302 pages
...noted. No eye has seen [them], O God, but You, Who act for those who trust in You." (Isaiah 64:3) 8. "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV.i.21 8-221). 9. In germ, this is precisely the kind of a priori argument...
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Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English ...

Michael Neill - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 556 pages
...stumbling attempt to articulate his dream should paraphrase a celebrated passage from 1 Corinthians (2.9): "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). The biblical passage refers to the "hidden wisdom" of "the deep things of God" whose...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 46

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 284 pages
...sense of it, and he tangles up the senses while paraphrasing St Paul to express his puzzlement and awe: 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was' (4.1.208-11). Human senses and powers collapse under the effort to report the experience that he recalls....
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The Sound of Shakespeare

Wes Folkerth - Drama - 2002 - 168 pages
...is most evident from the remarks he makes upon waking from his dream, when he declares in amazement 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was' (4.1.209-12). The perceptual confusion indicated in the speech is an unintentional effect of the confusion...
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Acting Shakespeare: For Auditions and Examinations

Frank Barrie - Acting - 2003 - 136 pages
...l was and methought l had - but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought l had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. l will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. lt shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because...
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Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations

Edward F. Pace-Schott - Medical - 2003 - 378 pages
...definition, being made available only as the individual dreamer desires. In the words of Shakespeare, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (Shakespeare 1595/ 1986). When we gather to study dreams, we each bring to the table our personal definitions....
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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 56, Shakespeare and Comedy: An Annual Survey of ...

Peter Holland - Drama - 2003 - 390 pages
...1960). 18 Cf. Bottom's even more thorough confusion of the senses in his celebrated Pauline parody: 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was' (4.1.209-12). (See also my 'John Hart and Bottom "goes but to see a noise"' (forthcoming)). 19 'While...
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 460 pages
...had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.199-207). This is the joke of a decisively secular dramatist, a writer who deftly turned the dream...
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