The Comedy of A Midsummer Night's DreamPrivately printed for Mr. Daly, 1600 - 75 pages |
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... grace . The fourfold story is never allowed to lapse into dul- ness or obscurity . There is caprice , but no distortion . The supernatu ral machinery is never wrested toward the production of startling or mon strous effects , but it ...
... grace . The fourfold story is never allowed to lapse into dul- ness or obscurity . There is caprice , but no distortion . The supernatu ral machinery is never wrested toward the production of startling or mon strous effects , but it ...
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... grace , even in the perfect breeding of Ham- let , than is visible in the preference of Theseus for the play of the hard- handed men of Athens : " And what poor duty cannot do Noble respect takes it in might , not merit , For never ...
... grace , even in the perfect breeding of Ham- let , than is visible in the preference of Theseus for the play of the hard- handed men of Athens : " And what poor duty cannot do Noble respect takes it in might , not merit , For never ...
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... grace Consent to marry with Demetrius , I beg the ancient privilege of Athens , As she is mine , I may dispose of her : Which shall be cither to this gentleman , Or to her death ; according to our law , Immediately provided in that.case ...
... grace Consent to marry with Demetrius , I beg the ancient privilege of Athens , As she is mine , I may dispose of her : Which shall be cither to this gentleman , Or to her death ; according to our law , Immediately provided in that.case ...
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... grace to pardon me . I know not by what power I am made bold , Nor how it may concern my modesty , In such a presence here , to plead my thoughts : But I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befal me in this case , If I ...
... grace to pardon me . I know not by what power I am made bold , Nor how it may concern my modesty , In such a presence here , to plead my thoughts : But I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befal me in this case , If I ...
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... breath in this fond chase ! The more my prayer , the lesser is my grace . Happy is Hermia , wheresoe'er she lies , For she hath blesséd and attractive eyes : But who is here ? -Lysander ! on the ground 38 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM .
... breath in this fond chase ! The more my prayer , the lesser is my grace . Happy is Hermia , wheresoe'er she lies , For she hath blesséd and attractive eyes : But who is here ? -Lysander ! on the ground 38 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM .
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COMEDY OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS D William 1564-1616 Shakespeare,Augustin 1838-1899 Daly,William 1836-1917 Winter No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 61 - 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. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream...
Page 35 - That very time I saw, but thou couldst not, Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 61 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Page 35 - Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd thee once: The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Page 34 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 37 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 27 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Page 71 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 75 - If we shadows have offended. Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend...
Page 25 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.