...flower of unconscious humour, is at his height of significance in his moment of supreme illusion : "I have had a dream, — past the wit of man to say...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." The whole philosophy of the subject, comically stated, is there. A serious statement of it is in the...

...is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methotight I had, — but man is but a patch'd fool,19 if he will offer to say what methought I had. The...heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is 20 not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to re's "As the jewel which one finds is...

...he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Me- . thought I was — and methought I had, — but man is but...ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince...

...that the story of eye and ear in that play doubles the comic plot of inversion and anarchic confusion: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). Given the chaotic realignment of faculties and their functions in Bottoms speech, it...

...stumbling attempt to articulate his dream should paraphrase a celebrated passage from 1 Corinthians (2.9): "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). The original passage refers to the "hidden wisdom" of "the deep things of God" whose...

...(5.1 (. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom evokes the ineffable wonder of his dream in explaining, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1l. As these examples suggest, hypallage is a figure of arrangement that creates poetic leaps of...

...is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I had - but man is but a patched fool if...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.202-11) It is Bottom's sense in this speech that he has had an experience greater than he can...

...was,—and methouglu I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methouglu I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was [cf. i Cor 2, 9. i2; Is 64, 4; 65, t7]. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it...

...educationally speaking, wambling about in that parody of I Corinthians 2:9, Bottom's discombobulated dream: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report ... It shall be called "Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom. 73 APPENDIX ONE Perhaps those teachers...

...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had — but man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had....conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.zo4-14)2 CLARENCE: Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower. . . . Methought that Gloucester...