 | Montague Ullman, Claire Limmer - 1999 - 298 ページ
...—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. The...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Park Honan - 1998 - 522 ページ
...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...called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom (rv. i. 208-13). 1* In farce, Shakespeare can allude easily to matters that involve his own past or... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 ページ
...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. The...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 ページ
...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. The...called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end ofa play, before de Duke. Peradventure, to make it the more gracious,... | |
 | Irving Singer - 2001 - 252 ページ
...— 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...called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom. — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene 1. In this book I try to show how... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 ページ
...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. The...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... | |
 | Michael Malone - 2001 - 361 ページ
...6 5 For Barry Hoffman "Round up the usual suspects." The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of than hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his...called Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the duke; peradventure, to make it the more... | |
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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. 
