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" Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold! "
The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Ed. from the Folio of MDCXXIII ... - Page 26
by William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1857
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream...confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross 'd, It stands as an edict in destiny: Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a customary...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...momentany6 as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied7 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and...confusion. Her. If then true" lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a customary...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...momentany as a sound,7 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,8 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,...darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to contusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...stay for thee. So, in Ben Jonson's Poetaster: " Thou hast not collied thy face enough." Steevens. s That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,...— Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up/] Though the word spleen be here employed oddly enough, ^et I believe it right. Shakspeare, always hurried...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night', That, in a spleen 10, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath...confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a customary...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...short as any dream ; 13rief as the lightning in the colly'd ' niglijt 1'hat, in a spleen ', unlolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Iier. If then true lovers have been ever cross«*d. It stands as an edict in destiny: Then let us leach...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Much ado about nothing ; Midsummer-night's ...

William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...momentanyt as a sound, Swift as » shadow, short as any dream j Brief as the lightning in the colHedJ night. That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and...confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny: Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a customary...
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Twelfth-night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer-night ...

William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...as a sound,7 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,8 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,...confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a customary...
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Anselmo; or, The day of trial, Volumes 1-2

Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...hi respect of years ; Or else it stood upon the choice of friends ; Or if there were -a sympathy ki choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. SHAKESPEARE. V.jhat kind of sullen suspense which pervades the breast of a youthful warrior VOL. ii....
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Shakspeare's himself again; or the language of the poet asserted

Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...colly 'd night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, Brief at the lightning in the colly'd night, \ ' That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven...— Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up :] Though the word spleen be here employed oddly enough, yet I believe it right. Shakepcare, always...
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