A Midsummer Night's DreamD.C. Heath & Company, 1916 - 185 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbott actors allusion Appendix H Athenian Athens awake blank verse Bottom burlesque called central idea Chaucer's comedy couplets dance death Demetrius doth dramatic Egeus Elizabeth Elizabethan Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairy queen fear flower Flute follow foot gentle Gentlemen of Verona give Hamlet hast hath heart Helena Hercules Hermia Hippolyta interlude Knight's Tale ladies lion look lord Love's Labour's Lost lovers Lysander Lysander's masque means metre Midsummer Night's Dream moon Moonshine mounsieur never night Oberon Ovid's Metamorphoses passage Peaseblossom Peter Quince Philostrate play poet probably prologue prose Puck Pyramus and Thisbe Qq Ff Quin Re-enter rhyme roar Robin Goodfellow Romeo and Juliet scene Scot sense Shakespeare sleep Snout speak sport Starveling story stresses sweet thee Theseus things Thisby's thou Tita Titania unstressed syllables unto wall wedding wood word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 60 - 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.
Página 17 - The juice of it, on sleeping eye-lids laid, Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees *. Fetch me this herb ; and be thou here again, Ere the leviathan can swim a league.
Página 17 - 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 ? Puck.
Página 10 - Let me play the lion too : I will roar, that I will do any man's heart good to hear me ; I will roar, that I will make the Duke say " Let him roar again, let him roar again.
Página 42 - Have with our neelds created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Página 12 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moones sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green : The cowslips tall her pensioners be...
Página 7 - 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.
Página 117 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Página 126 - Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
Página 56 - When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.