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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... PHILOSTRATE . It is very probable that Shakespeare derived the name from North's Plutarch , from which he took hints for the main plot of the play , though not from the part where that plot was found — the Life of Theseus . In the Life ...
... PHILOSTRATE . It is very probable that Shakespeare derived the name from North's Plutarch , from which he took hints for the main plot of the play , though not from the part where that plot was found — the Life of Theseus . In the Life ...
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... PHILOSTRATE , Master of the Revels to THESEUS . LYSANDER , DEMETRIUS , } in love with HERMIA . EGEUS , Father to HERMIA . HIPPOLYTA , Queen of the Amazons , betrothed to THESEus . HERMIA , Daughter to EGEUS , in love with LYSANder ...
... PHILOSTRATE , Master of the Revels to THESEUS . LYSANDER , DEMETRIUS , } in love with HERMIA . EGEUS , Father to HERMIA . HIPPOLYTA , Queen of the Amazons , betrothed to THESEus . HERMIA , Daughter to EGEUS , in love with LYSANder ...
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... PHILOSTRATE , and Attendants . The . Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in Another moon : but , oh , methinks , how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers my desires , Like to a step - dame or ...
... PHILOSTRATE , and Attendants . The . Now , fair Hippolyta , our nuptial hour Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in Another moon : but , oh , methinks , how slow This old moon wanes ! she lingers my desires , Like to a step - dame or ...
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... PHILOSTRATE , Lords and Attendants . Hip . ' Tis strange , my Theseus , that these lovers speak of . The . More strange than true . I never may believe These antique fables , nor these fairy toys . Lovers and madmen have such seething ...
... PHILOSTRATE , Lords and Attendants . Hip . ' Tis strange , my Theseus , that these lovers speak of . The . More strange than true . I never may believe These antique fables , nor these fairy toys . Lovers and madmen have such seething ...
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... Philostrate . Philost . Here , mighty Theseus . The . Say , what abridgment have you for this evening ? What masque ? what music ? How shall we beguile The lazy time , if not with some delight ? Philost . There is a brief how many ...
... Philostrate . Philost . Here , mighty Theseus . The . Say , what abridgment have you for this evening ? What masque ? what music ? How shall we beguile The lazy time , if not with some delight ? Philost . There is a brief how many ...
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Ægeus Amazon ancient Athenian Athens ATLAS beauty Bottom C. M. Ingleby called characters Chaucer classical cloth comedy dance daughter death Demetrius doth drama Duke Egeus English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes F. G. FLEAY fair fairy fancy Fcap fear flower Folio follow gentle GEOGRAPHY give Greek Greene's hast hate hath hear heart Helena Hercules Hermia Hippolyta king Knight's Tale lady Latin lines lion look lord Love's lovers Lysander Merchant of Venice merry Midsummer Night's Dream moon moonshine never night noble Oberon Ovid's passage PHILOSTRATE Pitheus play poem poet poetic Puck Pyramus and Thisbe quartos Queen Elizabeth Quin Quince Quote Robin Goodfellow SCENE Shakespeare sleep Snout Snug song speak sport strange sweet tears tell Tempest thee Theseus things thou Tita Titania tongue true unto wall wood word
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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...