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... Handy-book of Literary Curiosities - الصفحة 637بواسطة William S. Walsh - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 1104عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...niglijt 1'hat, in a spleen ', unlolds 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. Iier. If then true lovers have been ever cross«*d. It stands as an edict in destiny: Then let us leach... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...a sympathy in choice, Wir, 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 light*ning in the colly'd night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth ; And ere a man hath power to tay..... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...almost a severe countenance, and which, when that gleam is over, leave no trace of it behind — » . Brief as the lightning in the collied night* That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth; And e'er a man has time to say, behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. This sudden effect is often... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...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,* [3] As spotlas is innocent, so spotted is wicked. JOHNSON. f.4l Give them, bestow upon them. The word... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...sometimes from almost a severe countenance, and which, when that gleam is over, leave no trace of it behind Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both Leaven and earth; And e'er a man has time to say, behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. This... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...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 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. Her. If then true... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it momentanyt as a sound, Swift as a shadow, 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... | |
| William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...siege to it ; 6 Beteem them . — ] Give them, pgur out upon them. Making it 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, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold... | |
| Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...sympathy ki 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...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. SHAKESPEARE. V.jhat... | |
| 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 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...night, That in a spleen unfolds both earth and hearen, And ere a man hath power to say — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour 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 of... | |
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