| Jan H. Blits - 2003 - 228 páginas
...have seen the fairies, he says that his dream was beyond the power of human intelligence to describe: "I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was" (4.1.204-5). Then, in his next breath, he says that a man would be "but an ass" if he undertook to... | |
| Frank Barrie - 2003 - 136 páginas
...some vague memory of the time with Titania comes flooding back. Say / have had a most rare vision. l have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. *. . • ' Slowly and with great wonder. Be unconscious of the humour in 'Man is but an ass' - Bottom... | |
| Stephen Greenblatt - 2004 - 460 páginas
...he is returned to his human shape. And then, in a series of fits and starts, he tries to recount it: 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 t'expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought... | |
| Laurie Maguire - 2003 - 260 páginas
...Queen, remembers his metamorphosis only as a dream. He gives us a garbled account of the experience: I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste,... | |
| John M. Ford - 2004 - 376 páginas
...feet, danced a little jig-step, and sat down under the tree. "I have had a most rare vision," he said. "I have had a dream . . . past the wit of man to say what dream it was." He pulled the clogs on. clipclopped his feet on the floor. "Man is but an ass if he go about to expound... | |
| Edward Alexander Jones - 2004 - 238 páginas
...Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom, upon awakening from his disturbing experience among the fairies, says, 'l have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste,... | |
| Sidney Homan - 2004 - 169 páginas
...struggles to recall and, in his failure, recalls eloquently, however unintentionally: an indistinct place, a dream "past the wit of man to say what dream it was," a place where eyes can hear and ears see, profound "because it hath no bottom" (4.1.200-219). The forest... | |
| Daniel Kornstein - 2005 - 296 páginas
...for loud laughter. It is now time to do justice to Bottom. This is what Bottom says when he wakes up: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream...is but an ass if he go about t' expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had — but man... | |
| Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 páginas
...confused hypallage: 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 1 was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and Methought... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 páginas
...the bellows-mender! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God's my life! Stol'n 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, [he rises] Methought I was — there is no man can tell what . . . [he passes... | |
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