 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...  Bacon and Shakespeare Parallelisms - Page 159by Edwin Reed - 1902 - 441 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 448 pages
...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 - 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...— Behold ! The 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 pages
...there were 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 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as * shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,* • [3] AS spotless is innocent, so spatted is wicked. JOHNSON. [4] Give them, bestow upon them. The... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...friends ; Or if there were -a sympathy ki choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary, as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as...— Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. SHAKESPEARE. V.jhat kind of sullen suspense which pervades... | |
 | 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 of darkness do devour it up ; So quick bright things come to confusion. - A biographical account, written at some length and with... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...how vesatious is it to be in love ! There is ever some inequality either in birth or riches." B. Lys. Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colly 'd night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, Brief at the lightning in the colly'd... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...: 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...the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heav'n and earth : Her. Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a cuitomary cross, '[sighs,... | |
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