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" True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs... "
The Dramatic Writings of Will. Shakespeare: With Introductory Prefaces to ... - Page 21
by William Shakespeare - 1798
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Knight's Cabinet edition of the works of William Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 pages
...of good carriage. This is she— Rom. Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace, Thou talk'st of nothing. Mar. True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind who wooes Even...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 13

1843 - 676 pages
...GUARD AT HOLYROOD. BY HENRY CURLING. " Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace ; Thou talk'st of nothing." " True ; I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy." SHAKBTEARE. WHEN I was quartered, in the castle at Edinburgh, I remember one of the duties...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Printed from the Text ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 450 pages
...of good carriage. This, is she — Hum. Peace, peace! Mcrcutio, peace! Thou talk'st of nothing. Mar. True , I talk of dreams , Which are the children of an idle brain , Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air; And more inconstant than the wind , who wooes Even...
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The Works of Shakespere, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...is she — Rom. Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace; Thou talk'st of nothing. Mer. True, I talk of dreans, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...is she — Rom. Peace, peace, Mcrcutio, peace; Thou talk'st of nothing. Mer. Trne, I talk of drcans, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; . Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes...
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The Old Hall, Or, Our Hearth and Homestead, Volume 1

John Mills - 1845 - 336 pages
...the fashion of a hoop in motion, and in this way trundled himself rapidly out of sight. CHAPTER II. " True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even...
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The Dresser

Ronald Harwood - 1982 - 100 pages
...fear?' NORMAN. Wrong. 'Know that we have divided — ' SIR. (Continuing) 'Myself? there's none else by. True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain.' NORMAN. Wrong play, wrong play — SIR. 'I will move storms, I will condole in some measure — ' NORMAN....
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Players of Shakespeare 2: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by ...

Russell Jackson, Robert Smallwood - 1989 - 220 pages
...pregnancy, which at last gets a response from Romeo: ROMEO . . . Thou talk'st of nothing. MERCUTIO True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind. (1.4.96-100)...
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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare - 1990 - 292 pages
...good carriage. This is she 95 Romeo Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace. Thou talk's! of nothing. Mercutio True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain. Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air 100 And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even...
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The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance

Eva T. H. Brann - 1991 - 828 pages
...cornerstone of fools" (An Explanation of Astronomy as a Whole); and Shakespeare has Mercutio speak of dreams Which are the children of an idle brain Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. [Romeo and Juliet, I iv] On the other hand, in the seventeenth century Milton still refers...
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