...is most evident from the remarks he makes upon waking from his dream, when he declares in amazement '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 perceptual confusion indicated in the speech is an unintentional effect of the confusion...

...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 biblical passage refers to the "hidden wisdom" of "the deep things of God" whose...

...sense of it, and he tangles up the senses while paraphrasing St Paul to express his puzzlement and awe: 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was' (4.1.208-11). Human senses and powers collapse under the effort to report the experience that he recalls....

...I have had a most rare vision. 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...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, 92 what my dream was... it shall be called "Bottom's Dream" because it has no bottom.2 But does this...

...1960). 18 Cf. Bottom's even more thorough confusion of the senses in his celebrated Pauline parody: '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). (See also my 'John Hart and Bottom "goes but to see a noise"' (forthcoming)). 19 'While...

...definition, being made available only as the individual dreamer desires. In the words of Shakespeare, "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (Shakespeare 1595/ 1986). When we gather to study dreams, we each bring to the table our personal definitions....

...grander than the one he's been rehearsing. lt's all VERY serious for him and he has no idea when he says The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, that he may not be expressing himself quite as eloquently as he thinks. He is half remembering the...

...(3.1.85-87), Bottom, elevating his dream, confuses the senses. "The eye of man hath not heard,'1 he says; the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.209-12) wirh no power behind them able to discriminate between the objects of different senses...

...— 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....conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.199-207). This is the joke of a decisively secular dramatist, a writer who deftly turned the dream...

...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...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.205-6,211-14) Bottom's speech, with its misaligning of the senses, is a parody of 1 Corinthians...