 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...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 any Dream,...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 it up;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...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 any dream...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...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 any dream...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.... | |
 | George Lunt - New England - 1857 - 268 pages
...today? The listless hour, which they occupied, took with it its vague impressions, Making them momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. Were the newspaper really old, it might indeed... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character) - 1857 - 520 pages
...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 any dream,...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 710 pages
...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 any dream...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 618 pages
...there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream...lightning in the collied 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... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1857 - 292 pages
...came near the truth when he declared it was— " Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 'Mint in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere...say—Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up." Enjoyment is the most brief of all things, for its very nature is to destroy time. Like the fabled... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 374 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 740 pages
...4, 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...Her. If, then, true lovers have been ever cross'd, 8 BETEEM them] To beteem in its common acceptation is to bestow or allow, but Stoevens suggests that... | |
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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 :... 
