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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 :... "
The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George ... - Page 286
by William Shakespeare - 1807
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...if 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...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....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 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...lightning in the collied night', That, in a spleen 10, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold! The jaws of darkness...
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Anselmo; or, The day of trial, Volumes 1-2

Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...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 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. SHAKESPEARE....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 12

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
...literally to the fair promise of this favoured mind — for death did lay siege to it; Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream...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...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 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 : Her. Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a cuitomary cross, '[sighs,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 3

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,...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Lys. A good persuasion ; therefore, hear me, Hermia. 1 have a widow aunt, a dowager Of great revenue,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: To which are Added His ...

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 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...in destiny : Then let us teach our trial patience, Becanse it is a customary cross ; As due to love, as thoughts, and dreams, and sight, wishes, and tears,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 728 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,...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 V...
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The Beauties of Shakespeare: Selected from Each Play : with a General Index ...

William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 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;...devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. ASSIGNATION. I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow; By his best arrow with the golden head; By...
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The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson and Stevens [sic ...

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 486 pages
...choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it ; Making it шышчнлпу .1 as a sound, Swilt as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning...night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and eartb, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick...
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