 | Montague Ullman, Claire Limmer - Psychology - 1999 - 298 pages
...I may discover something akin to the illuminating confusions of Bottom, whom Shakespeare 1 had say: "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. Methought I was —there is no man can tell... | |
 | Shirley Chew, Alistair Stead - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 448 pages
...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 past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Bottom's metaphorical use of the word 'ass'... | |
 | Margaret Earley Whitt - African American women in literature - 1999 - 284 pages
...family to attend with her. The quoted lines from Midsummer Night's Dream include yet another dream: "I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what / dream it was" (IV. 1.204-205). While Cora Lee watches the play, she casts a new reality for herself that everything... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - Literary recreations - 2000 - 244 pages
...'ineffable' I simply mean 'beyond expression', for that is what Bottom later finds to be the case: 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. Methought I was — there is no man can tell... | |
 | Sandor Goodhart - Musicals - 2000 - 306 pages
...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;... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...the bellows-mender? Snout, the tinker? Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence, and left me asleep! 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. Methought I was -there is no man can tell what.... | |
 | Athens (Greece) - 2001 - 86 pages
...awake) When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. (He stares around for a moment.) God's my life! 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 his dream. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2002 - 246 pages
...thing that worries him slightly is his dream, which has been too wondrous for his verbal capacity : 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. Methought I was - there is no man can tell... | |
 | A. James Reichley - Social values - 2002 - 312 pages
...fairies after being turned into a donkey by the impish Puck. He has his farcical aspect, but he also has "had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. ... I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream,' because... | |
 | Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - Religion - 2002 - 172 pages
...innocent fool Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, wisely reported after his venture into fairyland: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was — The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his... | |
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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. 
