 | Kenneth S. Jackson - English drama - 2005 - 324 pages
...to something of "great constancy" that eludes her husband's reason. "Unreason," in short, matters.35 But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so together, More witnesseth than fancy's images And grows to something of great constancy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 68 pages
...at night, with a mind full of fears, it's easy tothink that what's only a bush is actually a bear1. But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so together. More witnesseth than fancy's images, And grows to something of great constancy;... | |
 | Harriett Hawkins - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 308 pages
...night told over" (15.1.7-8), including the "Pyramus and Thisby" play of the Mechanicals—then that "more witnesseth than fancy's images, / And grows to something of great constancy" (5.1.25-26). So we end with some kind of imaginative stability—"something of great constancy," or... | |
 | John Russell Brown - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 264 pages
...B. Jonson, 'To the memory of my beloved, The AUTHOR' prefixed to the Shakespeare 1623 Folio. . . . all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigured so together, More witnesseth than fancy's images And grows to something of great constancy;... | |
 | Stewart Justman - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 175 pages
...do not seem to register with him, except when she impugns his hounds — for she brushes it aside: But all the story of the night told over, And all...than fancy's images, And grows to something of great constancy,But howsoever, strange and admirable. (5. 1 .23-27) Hippolyta reads the lovers' story very... | |
 | Jill Line - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 196 pages
...by Theseus to pass off the account of the lovers' midnight adventures in the wood as mere fantasy: But all the story of the night told over, And all their minds transfigur'd so together, More witncsscth than fancy's images, And grows to something of great constancy; But howsoever, strange and... | |
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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... 
