 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 374 pages
...momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied 1 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1844 - 402 pages
...translator through this and the preceding stanza , is more forcibly condensed by Schiller in four lines. '* "And ere a man hath power to say, 'behold,' The jaws...it up , So quick bright things come to confusion." — SHAKESPEARE. THE FORTUNE-FAVOURED. [THE first five verses in the original of this Poem are placed... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, shurt as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the colled Jarkness do devour il up : So quick bright things come to confusion I LOVE'S LAST EVENING. Oh ! that... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1846 - 520 pages
...eloquent and touching passage in Shakespeare, speaking of the uncertainty of worldly affection :— " Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion." God to defend you against all evils, and that he be your shield. Farewell, dearest sister. 26th September,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1846 - 522 pages
...eloquent and touching passage in Shakespeare, speaking of the uncertainty of worldly affection :— " Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the...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." God... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...a sympathy hi choice, Wnr, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If, then, true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then, let us... | |
 | 1848 - 650 pages
...momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the cully M night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,...! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick do bright things come to confusion." And thus is it with poor Hermia. She soon finds herself assailed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, \infolds nly, it were not good She knew his love, lest she...never yet saw man, How wise, how noble, young, how Her. If, then, true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny: Then, let us teach... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1847 - 474 pages
...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 ; Brief as the...That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, 1 Beteem them — ] Give them, pour out upon them. 7 momentany at a sound,] ie momentary. s the collied... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1848 - 516 pages
...eloquent and touching passage in Shakespeare, speaking of the uncertainty of worldly affection : — " Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion." God to defend you against all evils, and that he be your shield. Farewell, dearest sister. 26th September,... | |
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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 :... 
