...noted. No eye has seen [them], O God, but You, Who act for those who trust in You." (Isaiah 64:3) 8. "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV.i.21 8-221). 9. In germ, this is precisely the kind of a priori...

...— and methought I had — but man is a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. Bottom— MND IV.i True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing...

...sense of it, and he tangles up the senses while paraphrasing St Paul to express his puzzlement and awe: 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was' (4.1.208-11). Human senses and powers collapse under the effort to report the experience that...

...stumbling attempt to articulate his dream should paraphrase a celebrated passage from 1 Corinthians (2.9): "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was" (4.1.209-12). The biblical passage refers to the "hidden wisdom" of "the deep things of God" whose...

...is most evident from the remarks he makes upon waking from his dream, when he declares in amazement 'The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was' (4.1.209-12). The perceptual confusion indicated in the speech is an unintentional effect of the...

...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...taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, 92 what my dream was... it shall be called "Bottom's Dream" because it has no bottom.2 But does this...

...and methought I had, — but "inn is but a patcht fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. ot crost, I have a father, you a daughter, lost. [Exit. Enter the Maskers G repon, what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream: it shall be called...

...- and methought I had - but a man is a patched fool ¡f he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand ¡s not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report on what my dream was. I will...

...Christians. Bottom refers to his experience in the wood by misquoting Paul and confusing the senses: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ... what my dream was. (IV, i, 230-33) Bottom again confuses the senses in the role of Pyramus : I...

...proclaimed earlier in the same Pauline epistle undergo Bottom's comic synesthesia and become that which "the eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen" (Dream 4.1.211-12). Moreover, even though the complementary symmetry of "to hear with eyes" and "to...