 Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, 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,...  The Works of William Shakespeare: The Plays Edited from the Folio of ... - Page 21by William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1889Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Stanley W. Wells - Drama - 1967 - 180 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,...heaven and earth, And - ere a man hath power to say l Behold T The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So qu1ck bright things come to confusion. There is... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 206 pages
...did flower, then as Lysander says War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...power to say "Behold! " The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.142-149) For an instant the shadow of Romeo and... | |
 | John Weld - Performing Arts - 1975 - 266 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,...power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.132-149) 194 This is one of the first great lyric... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 228 pages
...eyes. Lysander Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; 145 Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow,...and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, 'Behold! ', 1 50 The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion. Hermia If then... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...difficulties of young love and above all on its brevity and uncertainty, calling it . . . momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...power to say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. [Ii 143-49] These magnificent words are Lysander 's.14... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - Education - 1993 - 294 pages
...no other tried to stop the course, war, death or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...power to say 'Behold!', The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. (I, i, 141-49) The shadow, the dream, the night, may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...quoted from in the 137 misgraffeJ badly matched Introduction (page 209), comments: Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...to say 'Behold! — The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. HERMIA 1 50 If then true lovers have been ever crossed... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...difficulties we experience in self-apprehension: both situations yield an insight that is "momentany as a sound, / Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...to say 'Behold!' / The jaws of darkness do devour it up: / So quick bright things come to confusion" (lll43-49). No sooner do we figure the mind than... | |
 | Nora Roberts - Fiction - 2001 - 372 pages
...STATES OF AMERICA 20 19 18 17 16 To all my sisters, not of blood but of the heart. There 's the magic. Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the...power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Prologue THREE SISTERS ISLAND... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 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,...to say, 'Behold !' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion, (ii 141) 'Confusion': a pure Macbeth idea. And we... | |
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