 Making it momentary as a sound, 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 jaws of darkness do devour it up :...  The Plays of William Shakspeare - Page 135by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 960 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 996 pages
...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...jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. ' An old form of momentary. Millon seems to have remembered this passage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1873 - 814 pages
...Or else it stood upon the choice of friends ;Her. О hell 1 to choose love by another's eye I Lys. right judge 1 coliied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 584 pages
...else it stood upon the choice of friends ; — Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death,...jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...different in blood, Or else misgraffed in respect of years ; Or else it stood upon the choice of friends ; Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death,...jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. SHAKESPEARE. BYRON'S LATEST VERSES. [Missolongtii, January 23, 1824. On this... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...excessive melancholy and resentment. On which hand a lark sung from the tpleen. — DUXBAR. T 274 SPEIGHT. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That...jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. SHAKSPEARE, Midsummer Night's Dream, ii I know her for A spleeny Lutheran.... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...different in blood, Or else misgraffed in respect of years ; Or else it stood upon the choice of friends ; ll, awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves...Chief, for whom the whole creation smiles, At once the things come to confusion. Shakespeare2333. LOVE : creative. LOVE is the root of creation ; God's essence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Fairy plays - 1877 - 216 pages
...choose love by another's eyes. 14° War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream...jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Hermia. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, 150 It stands as an edict... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 pages
...choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shallow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the...Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So <iuick bright things come to confusion. SHAKESPEARE. BYRON'S LATEST VERSES. [Missolonghi, January 33.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 802 pages
...Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, 1 Give bestow on them. SCENE I. MIDSUMMER NIGHT's DREAM. 127 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Making...jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 170 pages
...else it stood upon the choice of friends : Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! 140 Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death,...dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night 145 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! The... | |
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