Shakespeare's comedy of A Midsummer night's dream, with notes by S. NeilWilliam Collins, Sons, and Company, 1878 - 158 pages |
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... Demetrius , and he refuses her for her friend Hermia . Hermia bids * ' In the second act of the Comedy of Errors ( scene ii ) occurs the following dialogue : " " Luciana . Dromio , go bid the servants spread for dinner . Dromio S. O ...
... Demetrius , and he refuses her for her friend Hermia . Hermia bids * ' In the second act of the Comedy of Errors ( scene ii ) occurs the following dialogue : " " Luciana . Dromio , go bid the servants spread for dinner . Dromio S. O ...
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William Shakespeare Samuel Neil. Demetrius love Helena , as Luciana bids Antipholus love his supposed wife Adriana . In the background of the Errors we have the father Ægeon , with the sentence of death or fine pronounced by Duke Solinus ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Neil. Demetrius love Helena , as Luciana bids Antipholus love his supposed wife Adriana . In the background of the Errors we have the father Ægeon , with the sentence of death or fine pronounced by Duke Solinus ...
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... Demetrius and Lysander , Hermia and Helena , with their love - crosses and perplexities , constitute the chief agents in the drama . Their way of life is the " plot " -disturbed , it is true , by the madcap sprite , Puck , whose ...
... Demetrius and Lysander , Hermia and Helena , with their love - crosses and perplexities , constitute the chief agents in the drama . Their way of life is the " plot " -disturbed , it is true , by the madcap sprite , Puck , whose ...
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... DEMETRIUS . - The Greek name Demetrius occurs in North's Plutarch , in the Life of Marcus Brutus ( chap . xxix ) , as that of one of ' Cassius's men , ' who brought his master's clothes and his sword also to Mark Antony . Several kings ...
... DEMETRIUS . - The Greek name Demetrius occurs in North's Plutarch , in the Life of Marcus Brutus ( chap . xxix ) , as that of one of ' Cassius's men , ' who brought his master's clothes and his sword also to Mark Antony . Several kings ...
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... Demetrius , whom he had chosen to be her husband , and preferred another young Athenian , called Lysander . In doing so she violated an old law of that city , which conferred on parents the right to compel their daughters to marry ...
... Demetrius , whom he had chosen to be her husband , and preferred another young Athenian , called Lysander . In doing so she violated an old law of that city , which conferred on parents the right to compel their daughters to marry ...
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Page 95 - 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 57 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 95 - Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 67 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, — And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Page 63 - 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 dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 91 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 67 - 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 103 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic ; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house : I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door.
Page 67 - 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 63 - 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...