 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...Shakespearean judgment of the relative importance of the various senses to the theatrical experience: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (MND, 4. 2.210- 14). M And as a deformation of the text of St. Paul, Bottom's formulation would have... | |
 | Lynne Magnusson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 235 pages
...Furthermore, it is possible that Bottom's frustrated effort in A Midsummer Night's Dream to express what "eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report" (4.1.209-11) was suggested by the mismatched words concerning inexpressibility that open a letter of... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.201-10) Well, I — as expounding ass and patched fool for the occasion — will venture to say... | |
 | Michael O'Connell - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 209 pages
...words as a judgment of the relative importance of the various senses to the theatrical experience: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4. 1 .21 1-14). 27 Such a deformation of a text of St. Paul (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) would have an easily... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 134 pages
...dream it was. Man is but an ass if he 205 go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was — and methought...hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's 210 hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was! I... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
