 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 :...  Memoirs of a Water Drinker - Strona 73autor: William Dunlap - 1837Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - Liczba stron: 410
...or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it momentany as a sound, 7 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night/...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - Liczba stron: 384
...collied night,"] Collied, ie black, smutted with coal, a word still used in the midland counties. Y2 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,...hath power to say, — Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up:3 So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - Liczba stron: 518
...momentany as a sound,7 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,8 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,...hath power to say,— -Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to contusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - Liczba stron: 924
...suddrn motion ; a fit. Brief as the lightning in the eollied night, That in a spleen unfolds both hcav'n and earth ; And, ere a man hath power to say, behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. Staksp, 5. Melancholy ; hypochondriacal vapours. Thespteen with sullen vapours clouds... | |
 | Cleeve - 1805 - Liczba stron: 276
...short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the colly'd night, That in a spleen unfolds both hcaren and earth, And ere a man hath power to say— Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. SHAKESPEARE, JLfORD Raby now thought it necessary to declare his sentiments to his.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - Liczba stron: 392
...old and proper word. Steevens. " that short momentany rage," — is an expression of Dryden. Henley. 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:3 So quick bright things come to confusion.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - Liczba stron: 328
...shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the rollied night, Thai, in .i spleen, nnfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold! The JAwB of darkness do devonr it np: So qnick bright things come to continion. Her. If then trne lovers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - Liczba stron: 414
...a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the 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 do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - Liczba stron: 384
...stay for thee. So, in Ben Jonson's Poetaster : " Thou hast not collied thy face enough." Sieevens. 3 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say, — Beholdf The jams of darkness do devour it up :] Though the word spleen be here employed oddly enough,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - Liczba stron: 472
...death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it uiomentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,...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.... | |
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