 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 pagina’s
...bodies forth 'i'lie forms of things unknown, (he poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy gift hath made me happy. I now beseech you, for your...whate'er it be. Val. These bauish'd men, that I have Hnw easy is a bush suppus'da bear? Hip. But all the story of the night, told over, And all their minds... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 pagina’s
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to air)1 nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! ( Vi)10 True enough, Elizabethan aestheticians were fond of invoking familiar commonplaces... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy ting a glitter, supposed a bear! (V, i) 128 Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon; Whilst the heavy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 pagina’s
...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...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! One obvious function of this speech is to vent scepticism — not just the character's,... | |
 | 1997 - 68 pagina’s
...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...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. (Enter Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, and... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 378 pagina’s
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to aery nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear. (5.1.1-22) Theseus's categorical view is strikingly paradigmatic: fancy apprehends, reason comprehends.... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 pagina’s
...darker tragedy. At the end of the play, Theseus disparages imagination's power to metamorphose reality: Such tricks hath strong imagination, That if it would...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear! (5.ll 8-22) Theseus engages in his own magisterial act of meiosis, denying the reciprocity involved... | |
 | Aileen M. Carroll - 2000 - 148 pagina’s
...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...the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos 'da bear! (continued) Lesson 35: Shakespeare's Message in A Midsummer Nights Dream 5. In the... | |
 | Sandor Goodhart - 2000 - 306 pagina’s
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to aery nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...the night, imagining some fear. How easy is a bush supposed a bear! (5. 1 .2-8; 14-22) So speaks the voice of "cool reason," for Theseus is hardly endorsing... | |
 | Raphael Lyne - 2001 - 470 pagina’s
...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to aery nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks...imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear!5 Reading this text based on the Folio version is a curiously unbalanced experience. There are... | |
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... 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... 
