 | William Smyth - France - 1840 - 466 pages
...a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the colly'd 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." Only two days after this oath of union and peace had been taken with so much unanimity and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...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 heav'n and earth, And ere a man hath power to say ' Behold !' The jaws of darkness do... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...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 ; And, ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! The jaws of darkness do... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pages
...shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night 2, 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 lovers have been ever cross'd,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - English fiction - 1842 - 416 pages
...short as any dream, Brief as thelightning in the collied night, That (in a spleen} unfolds bolh hcav'n 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." "And now mine will be the dreary lot of dragging... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - British literature - 1842 - 986 pages
...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 heav'n and earth , And, ere a man hath power to say behold, The jaws of darkness do devour... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 376 pages
...shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the ralliedb night, That, in a spleen,0 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 lovers have been ever cross'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...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, And ere a man hath power to say, " Behold !" The jaws of darkness do... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 1008 pages
...shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied 4 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behuld ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - Bible - 1843 - 264 pages
...he'll die ; and, rising so again, When I shall meet him in the court of Heaven I shall not know him. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both Heaven and earth. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, i. 1. Thou, whom I from meaner form Have bench'd,... | |
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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. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up :... 
