 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1902 - 422 pages
...dream. Methought I was— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was—and methought I had—but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say...of this , dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, be- J cause it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke; per-... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...come upon me. Act ic. Sc. i. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. ibid. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. ibid. 1 Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Enight. 2 See Chapman, page 36. 8 Trew as steele. — CHACCF.E... | |
 | William Burgess - Bible - 1903 - 322 pages
...Paul's eloquent words in I Cor. xi : 9. Bottom, the weaver, in a ludicrous account of a dream, says : "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." 4:1. Such an absurd paraphrasing of that sublime passage would be monstrous if it were dragged into... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - Shakespeare in fiction, drama, poetry, etc - 1904 - 362 pages
...have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was, Man is but an ass, a patched fool. Eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was!" The vast audience laughed heartily at the befuddled language of Bottom, the weaver, and imagined themselves... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 258 pages
...but an asjs, if_he_g_q_about_to_expound this _ ^dream._ Methought I was — there is no man can 2 1 o tell what. Methought I was, — and methought I had,...seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue 2 1 5 to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad... | |
 | Matilda Piro - Great Britain - 1892 - 336 pages
...flower of unconscious humour, is at his height of significance in his moment of supreme illusion : "I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." The whole philosophy of the subject, comically stated, is there. A serious statement of it is in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1906 - 1276 pages
...man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not [*is heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is...ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottom's [2*0 Oreara, because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ernest Clapp Noyes - 1908 - 216 pages
...a patch'd fool,0 if he will offer to say what methought 1 210 had. The eye of man hath not heard,0 the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able...ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dreain, because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing it in the "latter end of our play, before the Duke... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 782 pages
...H. N, P, most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of a man to say what dream it was : 220 man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this...I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this 230 dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing it in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1910 - 208 pages
...methought I had,—but man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The :io eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not...of this dream. It shall be called Bottom's Dream, 215 because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke; peradventure,... | |
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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. 
