A Midsommer Nights Dreame ...George G. Harrap, 1903 - 216 páginas |
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... characters on the stage , about whom Shakespeare weaves his spells . It is our eyes that are latched with magic juice . ' If we should try to keep ourselves half awake enough amid the charm of the Dream ' to watch with the artistic ...
... characters on the stage , about whom Shakespeare weaves his spells . It is our eyes that are latched with magic juice . ' If we should try to keep ourselves half awake enough amid the charm of the Dream ' to watch with the artistic ...
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... characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream ' partakes of the quality of the play as a whole . Despite the far larger degree ... character - development ; but it is nicely held in hand , prevented either from rising into prominence above the ...
... characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream ' partakes of the quality of the play as a whole . Despite the far larger degree ... character - development ; but it is nicely held in hand , prevented either from rising into prominence above the ...
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... have entered into the world's no- tion of fairy character forever , qualifying all lesser men's superstitious tales of fairy bestiality and malevo- lence . — As for jeering , horse - play - loving Puck xxviii A MIDSOMMER NIGHTS DREAME.
... have entered into the world's no- tion of fairy character forever , qualifying all lesser men's superstitious tales of fairy bestiality and malevo- lence . — As for jeering , horse - play - loving Puck xxviii A MIDSOMMER NIGHTS DREAME.
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... character - modeling . Their competitive spirit and masculine readiness to taunt and tussle each other belong rather to the genus homo than to any special variety capable of being differentiated therefrom . Only when the plot demands ...
... character - modeling . Their competitive spirit and masculine readiness to taunt and tussle each other belong rather to the genus homo than to any special variety capable of being differentiated therefrom . Only when the plot demands ...
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... characters . Lysander and Demetrius , being the passive channels of the love - charm , cannot develop strong ... character as Juliet's father or Desdemona's reveals . And Theseus and Hippolyta , although they are given an XXX A ...
... characters . Lysander and Demetrius , being the passive channels of the love - charm , cannot develop strong ... character as Juliet's father or Desdemona's reveals . And Theseus and Hippolyta , although they are given an XXX A ...
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Página 212 - But all the story of the night told over And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More witnesseth than fancy's images, And grows to something of great constancy ; But, howsoever, strange, and admirable.
Página 15 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, 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...
Página 20 - 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 loosed 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.
Página 44 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Página 21 - 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.
Página xxx - 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.
Página 64 - 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. 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!
Página 76 - Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Página 91 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página xvii - Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.