 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...life! Stol'n hence, and left me asleep! 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, [he rises] Methought I was — there is no man can tell what . . . [he passes his hand across his head,... | |
 | Ken Ludwig - American drama (Comedy) - 2005 - 124 pages
...the rum punch was too strong. . . CAGNEY. (Practicing his lines as Bottom:) "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. . ." (OBERON and OLIVIA now enter together. They 're still wearing their clothes from the party —... | |
 | Daniel Kornstein - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 296 pages
...Bottom. This is what Bottom says when he wakes up: 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 t' expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought... | |
 | Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 196 pages
...conveys that it is beyond all sensory experience: 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...if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was — and methought I had — but man is but a... | |
 | Gene Callahan - Fiction - 2006 - 306 pages
...giving her up, but the question left his dreams turbulent and troubled. PART IV / have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but...if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — no man can tell what. Methought I was — and methought I had — but man is but d patched... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2006 - 226 pages
...life - stolen hence and left me asleep! — 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...if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I was — and methought I had — but man is but a patched... | |
 | P. J. Parrish - Fiction - 2006 - 448 pages
...looked at him, his eyes clear and focused. "'I had a dream,' " he said softly. "'I 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.' " "That's from your book," Louis said. Charlie nodded. "Do you know what it means?" Louis let out a... | |
 | Janet Brennan Croft, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 337 pages
...understands his experiences as remarkable — "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" (4.1.203-5), which he nevertheless attempts — and he recognizes the inability of grasping the wisdom... | |
 | Michele Marrapodi - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 310 pages
...lived a dream which felt to him like reality. 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. (4.1.203-6). Bottom's dream also matters to the play's dramaturgy more than does the masterservant... | |
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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... 
