 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...fair good night. And pleasing dreams, and shimbers light. A. SCOTT — Jiarmion. Canto VI. Last Hues. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That,...— "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up. i. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I. Bo. 1. Come, gentle night; come, loving, blackbrow'd night. j. Romeo... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. /«. SCOTT — Jfarmicin. Canto VI. i Lost lines. Hrief antry by: And underneath that consecrated roof Plight...Night. Act IV. Sc. 3. 0 Cassius, you are yoked with n i. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I. Sc. 1. Come, gentle night; come, loving, blackbrow'd night. ;. .Romeo... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 498 pages
...eyes. 140 Lys. Or, 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,...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, 150 It stands as... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Stanley W. Wells - Drama - 1967 - 180 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,...heaven and earth, And - ere a man hath power to say l Behold T The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So qu1ck bright things come to confusion. There is... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 206 pages
...did flower, 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,..."Behold! " The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.142-149) For an instant the shadow of Romeo and Juliet falls... | |
 | John Weld - Performing Arts - 1975 - 266 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,...'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.132-149) 194 This is one of the first great lyric show-stoppers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 228 pages
...eyes. Lysander Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; 145 Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow,...and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, 'Behold! ', 1 50 The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion. Hermia If then... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...prospective groom and bride; yet both of them contemplate the reality that Lysander is shortly to declare Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That,...say "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up. [Ii 145-48] In other words, all three here look upon love as an objective, something to be reached... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - Education - 1993 - 294 pages
...no other 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,...'Behold!', The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. (I, i, 141-49) The shadow, the dream, the night, may not be friends,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...quoted from in the 137 misgraffeJ badly matched Introduction (page 209), comments: Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...— The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. HERMIA 1 50 If then true lovers have been ever crossed It stands as... | |
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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 :... 
