 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, So quick...  Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine ... - Seite 741823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 Seiten
...Brief as the lightning in the collied night,8 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 things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 Seiten
...Brief as the lightning in the collied J 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 up: So quick hright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have heen ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 Seiten
...Brief as the lightning in the colHedJ 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 things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 Seiten
...with coal, a word still used in the mid land That, in a spleen, unfolds6 both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up y So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 Seiten
...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 : So quick bright things come to confusion. SHAKESPEARE. V.jhat kind of sullen suspense which pervades... | |
 | 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 Seiten
...; Brief as the lightning 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 ; So quick bright things come to confusion. - A biographical account, written at some length and with... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 Seiten
...Brief at 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 ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up :] Though the word spleen be here employed oddly enough, yet I believe it right. Shakepcare, always... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 Seiten
...Brief as the lightning in the collied 4 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 things come to confusion. Her, If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | 1819 - 728 Seiten
..." Brief as the lightning in the colly'd n'ght, [and eanh, That in a spleen unfolds both Heaven And ere a man hath power to say Behold ! The jaws of Darkness do devour it up !" Midsummer Night's Dream. I was too much absorbed in meditating the terrible sublimity of that agency which appeared... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 Seiten
...; Briefes 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 : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
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