 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 384 pàgines
...the bellows-mender! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God's my life! stolen hence, and left me asleep ! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...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... | |
 | Shirley Chew, Alistair Stead - 1999 - 448 pàgines
...answer ... God's my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep? But then the wisp of a memory supervenes: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream...what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Bottom's metaphorical use of the word 'ass' appears to trigger his residual... | |
 | Margaret Earley Whitt - 1999 - 284 pàgines
...family to attend with her. The quoted lines from Midsummer Night's Dream include yet another dream: "I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what / dream it was" (IV. 1.204-205). While Cora Lee watches the play, she casts a new reality for herself that everything... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pàgines
...'ineffable' I simply mean 'beyond expression', for that is what Bottom later finds to be the case: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream...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... | |
 | Sandor Goodhart - 2000 - 306 pàgines
...his sleep (and returned to his wonted form), repeats the sentiments expressed by the other dreamers: "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was" (4. 1 .204-06). While all of these "dreams," in fact, happened (Titania was infatuated with an ass;... | |
 | Robert Weimann - 2000 - 324 pàgines
..."stol'n hence" (204), he, alone on stage, tells the audience of his dream and how this dream surpasses "the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about [t'J expound this dream" (205-07). The dream transcends the poetics of "glass" or "mirror"; it is not... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pàgines
...thing that worries him slightly is his dream, which has been too wondrous for his verbal capacity : I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pàgines
...the bellows-mender? Snout, the tinker? Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...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 wasand methought... | |
 | 2001 - 86 pàgines
...awake) When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. (He stares around for a moment.) God's my life! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream...what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound his dream. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottom's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 134 pàgines
...Flute the bellows.mender? Snout the tinker? Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...to say what dream it was. Man 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... | |
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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. 
