 | W. J. T. Mitchell - Art - 1995 - 445 pages
...Blake's art of writing ceases to be just a visible language and becomes a synaesthetic spectacle that "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report." And as possibility, and that is the notion of formal, graphic iterability. This principle links text... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 234 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...man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, 'K"S man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 213 pages
...that the story of eye and ear in that play doubles the comic plot of inversion and anarchic confusion: "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). Given the chaotic realignment of faculties and their functions in Bottoms speech, it... | |
 | Theresa Enos, Theresa Jarnigan Enos - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 803 pages
...(5.1 (. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom evokes the ineffable wonder of his dream in explaining, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1l. As these examples suggest, hypallage is a figure of arrangement that creates poetic leaps of... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 416 pages
...is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I had - but man is but a patched fool if...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.202-11) It is Bottom's sense in this speech that he has had an experience greater than he can... | |
 | Frans Jozef van Beeck - Religion - 1997 - 425 pages
...was,—and methouglu I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methouglu I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was [cf. i Cor 2, 9. i2; Is 64, 4; 65, t7]. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it... | |
 | David Solway - Education - 1997 - 313 pages
...educationally speaking, wambling about in that parody of I Corinthians 2:9, Bottom's discombobulated dream: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report ... It shall be called "Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom. 73 APPENDIX ONE Perhaps those teachers... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 318 pages
...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had — but man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had....conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.zo4-14)2 CLARENCE: Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower. . . . Methought that Gloucester... | |
 | Vicki K. Janik - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 552 pages
...attempts to recognize his reality: Methought 1 was, and methought I had — but man is but [a patch'd] fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had....conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was (4.1.206-21 1). These mangled, misquoted lines (see 1 Cor. 2:9) reveal more than the humor of this... | |
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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. 
