 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 Seiten
...sense that 'yet we dream'; and Bottom too remembers what has happened to him as if it were a dream: 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 t'expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what. Methought I had - but man is... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 Seiten
...part)' oft" with the suggestion "And by the « way, lets recount our dreams"), utters his resonant "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 t' expound this dream. Methought I was— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 Seiten
...Bottom apprehends something strange and admirable in his metamorphosis and his liaison with Titania: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to A Kingdom of Shadows 233 expound this dream The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not... | |
 | Avraham Oz - 1998 - 324 Seiten
...Dream represents a sophisticated burlesque of the visionary Sidneyan legacy of representation: ... 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 [f] expound this dream. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - 1998 - 352 Seiten
...TITANIA: My Oberon, what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamor'd of an ass. (4. 1.j6-jj) ... 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 t' expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought... | |
 | Earl R. Anderson - 1998 - 412 Seiten
...tour de force combined with the inexpressibility topos, in a soliloquy on his dream (IV, i, 208 sqq.): I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he can go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 Seiten
...performance, and dream: Methinks I see these things with parted eye, When everything seems double. 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. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits . . . . . . We are such... | |
 | Ray Leslee, Kenneth Welsh - 1998 - 44 Seiten
...spirits and are melted into air, into thin air ... we are such stuff as dreams are made on ... and I have had a most rare vision ... I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was ... methought I had ... methought I was ... but man is a patched fool if he will offer to say what... | |
 | Shirley Chew, Alistair Stead - 1999 - 448 Seiten
...answer ... God's my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep? But then the wisp of a memory supervenes: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream...is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Bottom's metaphorical use of the word 'ass' appears to trigger his residual memory of the state of... | |
 | Sandor Goodhart - 2000 - 306 Seiten
...his sleep (and returned to his wonted form), repeats the sentiments expressed by the other dreamers: "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was" (4. 1 .204-06). While all of these "dreams," in fact, happened (Titania was infatuated with an ass;... | |
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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. 
