 If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.  Hermathena - Page 1701901Full view - About this book
 | Leon Kellner - 1969 - 234 pages
...Q2). Read, with Qt and F, biting jest. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne; \ And all this an day an unaccustom'd spirit \ Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts (Rom. V, 1, 4 F). The first an is an intruder. How goes the world, that I am thus encounter' d \ With... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1967 - 308 pages
...warned of the activities of Queen Mab he takes undue note of it: If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep. My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.... | |
 | Kent Cartwright - 2010 - 301 pages
..."That I reviv'd and was an emperor" (Vi9). Romeo has entered the last scene in a Uminoid kinetic state: "And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit / Lifts me above the ground" (Vi4-5); "or did I dream it so? / Or am I mad" (V.iii.79-80). His violence has approached a ghastly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1990 - 292 pages
...dinner. Act five Scene 1 A street in Mantua. Enter Romeo Romeo If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne And all this day an unaccustomed spirit 5 Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.... | |
 | Charles A. Hallett, Elaine S. Hallett - 1991 - 248 pages
...Romeo at the most widely divergent point from that to which the news of Juliet's burial will bring him: My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne. And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...equal, or interrupting the action at more proper intervals. (VIII, 108) [193] [Ibid., 5.1.3ff: Romeo. My bosom's Lord sits lightly on his throne; And, all...unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with chearful thoughts.] These three lines are very gay and pleasing. But why does Shakespeare give Romeo... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...V. SCENE I. Mantua. A street. Enter ROMEO. ROMEO. TF I may trust the flattering eye of sleep, J.My pray thou for us; And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius! — Keep wo in his throne; And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1998 - 516 pages
...the poor young lady who must share his distress." Chapter ;fourteen Ifl may trust the flattering eye of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand: My bosom's lord sits lighdy in his throne, And all this day, an unaccustpm'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful... | |
 | John O'Connor - 2001 - 264 pages
...destroyed. ACTV Scene i A street in Mantua. Enter Romeo. ROMEO If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne; And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 212 pages
...agency that suggestion reaches Romeo, though in a different form. If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.... | |
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