True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs... The American Whig Review - 119. oldal1846Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 oldal
...carriage: This is she — ROMEO. Peace, peace, Mercurio, peace! Thou talk'st of nothing. MERCUTIO. t choose: sometime he angers me With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, Of the dreamer Merlin Which is as thin of substance as the air; And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the... | |
| Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 oldal
...spinning something out of nothing: ROMEO Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! Thou talk'st of nothing. MERCUTIO True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air (1.4.95-9) Dazzling and mercurial, Mercutio's speech bursts... | |
| Stanley Wells - 2002 - 368 oldal
...tracks as if to save him from his over-heated imaginings, provoking Mercutio to deny their validity: I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind . . . (1.4.96-100) in terms... | |
| Martial Singher, Eta Singher - 1983 - 372 oldal
...month" (Shakespeare, describing Mercutio through the mouth of Romeo). To this Mercutio himself adds: "True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy which is as thin of substance as the air and more inconstant than the wind. " These two quotations... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2000 - 180 oldal
...carriage. 94 This is she ROMEO Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace! Thou talk'st of nothing. 96 MERCUTIO True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; 98 Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos 100 Even now... | |
| Duncan Beal - 2014 - 190 oldal
...good carriage. This is she ROMEO Peace, peace, Mercurio, peace. 95 Thou talk'st of nothing. MERCUTIO True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind who woos 100 Even now the... | |
| Pierre Sorlin - 2003 - 200 oldal
...tales, all have strange dreams, and may arouse a passing curiosity in others by recounting them. 'Dreams are the children of an idle brain begot of nothing but vain fantasy', Shakespeare says in Romeo and Juliet. Some scientists also consider dreams meaningless. In daytime,... | |
| J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 oldal
...yet hanging in the stars' (Bomeo I 4 107), his friend Mercutio responds cynically. Dreams, he says, 'are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy' (Bomeo I 4 97-8). Much more sinister in his ridiculing of the unknown is Edmund, the bastard son of... | |
| Duncan Beal - 2003 - 91 oldal
...toid by the Nurse, and during her mother's description of Paris? 12 Act 1 : Scene 4 Romeo and Mercutio I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, (Mercutio, lines 96-7) Little happens in this scene to further The scene's interest lies in other areas:... | |
| Hugh Macrae Richmond - 2004 - 590 oldal
...senses and associations for this word, beyond ours of inactive or lazy to something like 'distracted': 'dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy' (Romeo, 1.3.96-8). Other uses cover several pejorative meanings: to move lightly or casually, 'the... | |
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