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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 :... "
The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ... - Page 267
by William Shakespeare - 1883
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied4 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ettr cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 444 pages
...as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colliedk night, That, in a spleen,1 unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 500 pages
...momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied4 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and...it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...; Brief as the lightning in the collied6 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both ..^avcn and eartb, ere abus'd with divers stolne, and surreptitious copies,...by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostor Her. If then true lovers have been ever сгомЧ It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...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...up : So quick bright things come to confusion.— Shakspeare. O RUSTIC herald of the Spring ! At length in yonder woody vale, Fast by the brook I hear...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...a sound, ') Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the rallied night,.8) 0 Ya B b i g 0 V# ` a 6%㓆,f % hX-ZF ( 8 Æ Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny: Then let us teach...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...there were a symp'athy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it} Making it momentany* of Hermione, viwited that iemoved* house. Shall we thiiher, Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny : Then let us teach...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 40

1836 - 928 pages
...dt-ath, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Stvift as a shadow, short ns any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied...devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion ! " So fares it with the lovely in this world," says Schiller ; borrow, ing the thought, and almost...
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The County [afterw.] Country miscellany, ed. by H. Burgess

Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...from his sight. He will discover them by dearbought experience to be as Shakspeare has stated— " Swift as a shadow; short as any dream; Brief as the...say,' Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up." Those persons will not contemplate this subject in vain who look through the uncertainty of terrestrial...
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Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you ...

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...momentanya as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied3 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and...devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever crossed, It stands as an edict in destiny. Then let us teach...
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