 | Montague Ullman, Claire Limmer - 1999 - 298 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...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." It is not our "I am" systems to which our dreams refer; it is our "I am not" systems to which our dreams... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 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 - 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 - 2000 - 244 pages
...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 I had— but...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 - 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... | |
 | Park Honan - 1998 - 522 pages
...Bishops' Bible (1568) or the Geneva Bible (1557). 'The eye of man hath not heard', says Bottom earnestly, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able...report what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom (rv. i.... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...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 I had - but man...report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream ; it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom ; and I... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...go about to expound this dream. Methought I was -there is no man can tell what. Methought I wasand methought I had -but man is but a patched fool if...report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom; and I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 134 pages
...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 I had —...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... | |
 | Irving Singer - 2001 - 252 pages
...— George Santayana, letter to Charles P. Davis, April 3, 1936. I have had a most rare vision. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom. — William... | |
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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. 
