 | William Bell - 1860 - 360 pages
...unangelic character. Bottom, also, I believe, has his name for a similar purpose, when he says — " The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad on this dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom." Poor as this pun is,... | |
 | Montague Ullman, Claire Limmer - 1999 - 298 pages
...—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 what methought I had....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
...— 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 what methought I had....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... | |
 | 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...Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom (rv. i. 208-13). 1* In farce, Shakespeare can allude... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 148 pages
...had. The eye of man hath not heard, the 209 ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to 210 taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream. It shall be called "Bottom's 213 Dream," because it hath no bottom; and I will... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...I was -there is no man can tell what. Methought I wasand methought I had -but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had....Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end ofa play,... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...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, what methought I had....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 will sing... | |
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I had. 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. 
