 | James A. Fischer - Religion - 2002 - 160 pages
...them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." His wife Hippolyta adds: "But all the story of the night told over, And all...something of great constancy; But, howsoever, strange and admirable.'"1 The mind which seeks the invisible God must do so in images. The abstract is a secondary... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 216 pages
...wrong, even about the lovers. He thinks their story is untrue; but as Hippolyta properly points out: All the story of the night told over, And all their...constancy; But, howsoever, strange and admirable. (v, i, 23-7) The strange story of the lovers is, in the world of the play, true. There is, I think,... | |
 | 1984 - 440 pages
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 | John Sallis - Philosophy - 2002 - 144 pages
...just said. She refers to what the four lovers have told of their night— or dream — in the forest: But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigure! so together, More witnesseth than fancy's images. And grows to something of great constancy;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so together, More witnesseth than fancv's ou; I am Antony THESEUS. Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth. Enter LYSANOER, DEMETRIUS, HERMIA, and HELENA.... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2003 - 228 pages
...of "antique fables." It is an imitation of an imitation of deeds. Hippolyta tries to answer Theseus: But all the story of the night told over, And all...great constancy; But howsoever, strange and admirable. Hippolyta qualifies what Theseus said. She does not dispute his dismissing mere imagination ("fancy's... | |
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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... 
