 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 424 pages
...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 . Brief as the lightning in the collied2 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 588 pages
...brightening and of better days, how soon was it to disappear ! It scarcely lasted to the next sitting. " 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, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pages
...a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it rmomontany as a sound, blowing the fire, shall warm myself, for, «collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pages
...then as Lysander says 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 lightning in the collied night That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!... | |
 | John Weld - 1975 - 266 pages
...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, 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!'... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...of young love and above all on its brevity and uncertainty, calling it . . . momentany 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!"... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - 1993 - 294 pages
...tried to stop the course, 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 lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!',... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - 1994 - 284 pages
...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, Brief as the lightning in the collied night. What makes that passage of dialogue seem not like people having a chat? What distinguishes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...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, 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!'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, 3 collied night, 1 hat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,... | |
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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 :... 
