 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 : So quick bright things come to...  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Page 9by William Shakespeare - 1907Full view - About this book
 | 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 cross... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 pages
...short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied J night. That, in a spleen, unfolds hoth heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,...Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick hright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have heen ever cross'd, It stands as an edict... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...Collied, ie black, smutted with coal, a word still used in the mid land That, in a spleen, unfolds6 both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to...— Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up y So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both earth and hearen, And ere a man hath power to say — Behold ! The jaws...it up ; So quick bright things come to confusion. - A biographical account, written at some length and with much. feeling, is prefixed to the memoirs... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 344 pages
...cross ; As due to love, as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers. 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 : So quick bright things come to confusion. Lys.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...momentany 3 as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied 4 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Briefes the lightning in the collied 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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