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The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Approximate author period: c. 1590 AD · renaissance
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- William Shakespeare
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- Approximate author period: c. 1590 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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