 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 bright things come to...  The Quarterly Review - Page 507edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Smyth - France - 1840 - 468 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, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...stood upon the choice of friends ; Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it momentary as a sound,...the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heav'n and earth, And ere a man hath power to say ' Behold !' The jaws of darkness do devour it up... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...stood upon the choice of friends : Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Making it momentary as a sound,...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... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - British literature - 1842 - 986 pages
...stood upon the choice of friends — Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound,...the collied night, That (in a spleen) unfolds both heav'n and earth , And, ere a man hath power to say behold, The jaws of darkness do devour it up —... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - English fiction - 1842 - 416 pages
...stood upon the choice of friends—- 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, short as any dream, Brief as thelightning in the collied night, That (in a spleen} unfolds bolh hcav'n and earth; And, ere a man... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 332 pages
...275b-c; translated by HN Fowler, Loeb Classical Library (London, 1914)] qq. I Samuel, xrv, 24. rr. ' Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That (in a spleen) unfolds heav'n and earth And ere man has power to say : Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up.' Shakespeare,... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...difficulties 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,...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... | |
 | 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,...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.... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - Literature - 1994 - 284 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, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 145 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth; And ere a man hath power to say "Behold!" The... | |
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