Shakespeare's Midsummer-night's DreamRoberts brothers, 1870 - 87 pages |
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William Shakespeare. HERMIA . My good Lysander ! I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow , By his best arrow with the golden head , By the simplicity of Venus ' doves , By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves , And by that fire ...
William Shakespeare. HERMIA . My good Lysander ! I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow , By his best arrow with the golden head , By the simplicity of Venus ' doves , By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves , And by that fire ...
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... Cupid painted blind : Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings , and no eyes , figure unheedy haste : And therefore is Love said to be a child , Because in choice he often is beguil'd . As waggish boys in game themselves ...
... Cupid painted blind : Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste ; Wings , and no eyes , figure unheedy haste : And therefore is Love said to be a child , Because in choice he often is beguil'd . As waggish boys in game themselves ...
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... shot madly from their spheres , To hear the sea - maid's music . PUCK . I remember . OBERON . That very time I saw ( but thou could'st not ) , Flying between the cold moon and the Earth , Cupid all arm'd a certain aim he took : At 2 I.
... shot madly from their spheres , To hear the sea - maid's music . PUCK . I remember . OBERON . That very time I saw ( but thou could'st not ) , Flying between the cold moon and the Earth , Cupid all arm'd a certain aim he took : At 2 I.
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... Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon , And the imperial vot'ress passed on , In maiden meditation , fancy - free . Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower , Before ...
... Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon , And the imperial vot'ress passed on , In maiden meditation , fancy - free . Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower , Before ...
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... Cupid's archery , Sink in apple of his eye . When his love he doth espy , Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky , When thou wak'st , if she be by , Beg of her for remedy . Enter PUCK PUCK . Captain of our fairy band ...
... Cupid's archery , Sink in apple of his eye . When his love he doth espy , Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky , When thou wak'st , if she be by , Beg of her for remedy . Enter PUCK PUCK . Captain of our fairy band ...
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art thou Athenian Athens awake beard bless BOTTOM brier changeling COBWEB Crete Cupid dance dead dear dote doth dream Duke EGEUS elves Enter DEMETRIUS Enter LYSANDER Enter OBERON Enter PUCK Exeunt Exit eyes Fair Helena fair Hermia Fairy Queen father fear flower FLUTE follow'd gentle give gone grace hast thou hate hath hear heart HIPPOLYTA honey-bag hounds kill lady lanthorn lion look lord love thee love's lovers lulla Lysander's maid maiden Masters methinks Methought moon Moonshine Mounsieur Mustard-seed never Nick Bottom night Ninus nymph o'er PEAS-BLOSSOM Peter Quince PHILOSTRATE play pray prologue Pyramus and Thisby roar Robin Robin Starveling SCENE scorn shine sing sleep SNOUT SNUG soul Sparta speak sport STARVELING stay stol'n sweet tears tell THESEUS things Thisby's thou hast Thou shalt thou wak'st thy love TITANIA tongue troth true unto vile vows wake wall wilt wonder wood
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Page 22 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 70 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of Imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is, the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 39 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
Page 70 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.
Page 21 - 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.
Page 6 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 19 - Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound : And thorough this distemperature, we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; And on old Hyems' thin and icy crown, An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Page 70 - Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! HIP.
Page 16 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green : The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours : I must go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 7 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up, So quick bright things come to confusion.