...forty minutes. (iii) His speech was like a tangled chain: nothing impaired, but all disordered. (iv) I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. [12 5. Describe any two of Gulliver's adventures at the court of Brobdingnag. [12 6. Either (a) How...

...discrimination between Shakespeare's Greek and Celtic nature notes deserves careful weighing. Thus he writes : " I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where Oxlips and the nodding violet grows," which strikes a Greek note. Then, again, in his — " Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid...

...lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight." " I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips, and the nodding violet grows; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine." What a nosegay for the...

...treated as the Bur being tender and disarmed of its prickles. — John Evelyn, Acetaria, 1699. THYME ** I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk roses and with Eglantine." Midsummer Night's Dream,...

...passage from "Midsummer Night's Dream," in •which Oberon describes to Puck the couch of Titania. "I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows; Quite overcanopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk roses and with eglantine: There sleepe Titania, some...

...country lanes it was the perfume of the flower, of the Rose, that caused him in his heart to sing : — " I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk roses and with eglantine." Yes; the delicious...

...thy love. [Enter Puck] Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer. Puck Ay, there it is. Oberon I pray thee give it me. I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows; 250 Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet...

...and recriminations of the lovers, there's the lyrical poetry of natural beauty, as when Oberon says: I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine . . . This is the kind...

...description of Titania's bower in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, scene ii: "I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,/ Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows." a produceable play: Murder in the Cathedral', see Letter 83 above. 93. TLS-2 May 18, 1938 Dear Ezra:...

...because as Socrates does not feel the country, he goes naturally into prose. From Midsummer Nighfs Dream. I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows; Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania,...