| Laurie Maguire - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 260 pages
...account of the experience: I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.205-6,211-14) Bottom's speech, with its misaligning of the senses, is a parody of 1 Corinthians... | |
| Heinrich F. Plett - Art - 2004 - 600 pages
...(190-191). This twofold synaesthesia is a trope that first appeared when Bottom woke up from his dream: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (IV.i.209-212), which is a travesty of St. Paul's Epistle I Corinthians ii.10. The prosopopoeias of... | |
| Edward Alexander Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 238 pages
...experience among the fairies, says, 'l have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was' (1V.i. 209-10, 214-17). Bottom's lack of awareness about almost anything is comically apparent here,... | |
| Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought 1 was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I was,...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was (IV, i, 104 ft) That is Bottom's great moment, and a daring piece of theatre as we teeter on the brink... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2005 - 68 pages
...I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was... The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream. It shall be called 'Bottom's Dream1 because it hath no bottom; and I will Sing... | |
| Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 196 pages
...unable to describe it but his muddled phraseology conveys that it is beyond all sensory experience: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. . . ^m_\ 3 His confusion and euphoria over his experience is not surprising for he has spent a night... | |
| Michael Kurland - Fiction - 2007 - 320 pages
...you, Mr. Holmes." "Thank you. I feel the same way myself," Holmes told her. 200 TWE N TY- S IX MISSING The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. — William Shakespeare A large black dhow, which had been motorized with some sort of ancient and... | |
| Laurie E. Maguire - Self-Help - 2006 - 246 pages
...garbled account of the experience: I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.205-6, 211-14) Bottom's speech, with its misaligning of the senses, is a parody of 1 Corinthians... | |
| David Mikics - Reference - 2008 - 368 pages
...from his bestial metamorphosis and his dalliance with the fairy queen Titania, he stumblingly remarks, "Methought I was — and methought I had — but man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 4.1). Saint Paul in Corinthians 2:9 had written, "Eye hath... | |
| William Shakespeare - Dramatists, English - 2007 - 1288 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had, — but man is but a patcht fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had....what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no.bottom; and I will sing... | |
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