 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pages
...of love must hold a plea. For if despite all other obstacles love did flower, then as Lysander says War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making...devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.142-149) For an instant the shadow of Romeo and Juliet falls across the play. And indeed in the... | |
 | John Weld - 1975 - 266 pages
...Lys. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends— Her. O hell! to choose love by another's eyes! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War,...devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.132-149) 194 This is one of the first great lyric show-stoppers in Shakespeare's career. It is... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...prospective groom and bride; yet both of them contemplate the reality that Lysander is shortly to declare Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That,...say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up. [Ii 145-48] In other words, all three here look upon love as an objective, something to be reached... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 pages
...Or else it stood upon the choice of friends — HERMIA O hell! To choose love by another's eyes! 140 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it — Making...darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.9 HERMIA If then true lovers have been ever crossed, 150 It stands as an edict in destiny:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...the farcical confusions develop, so Lysandcr is given a lyrical expression of the fragility of love: Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death,...devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. There is pathos here; even a hint of the possibility of tragedy. The same imagery recurs in a premonitory... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 1 hat, t 3 HEKMIA. If, then, true lovers have been ever crost, It stands as an edict in destiny: Then let us teach... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 pages
...well to the difficulties we experience in self-apprehension: both situations yield an insight that is "momentany as a sound, / Swift as a shadow, short...it up: / So quick bright things come to confusion" (lll43-49). No sooner do we figure the mind than we disfigure it with terms of comparison. Julian Jaynes... | |
 | Uwe Timm - 1998 - 300 pages
...Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a splee, unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath...devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night 's Dream Micfaummer * camp bed STRICTLY SPEAKING, THIS STORY BEGINS... | |
 | Nora Roberts - 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...devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Prologue THREE SISTERS ISLAND SEPTEMBER 1699 She called the storm. The gales... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 134 pages
...sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, 145 Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That...devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. 150-1 If then . . . destiny-, if true lovers have always ('ever') been frustrated ('crossed'), then... | |
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Making it momentany 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 :... 
