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" 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 the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,... "
The Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Rev. Alexander Dyce's ... - Page 79
by William Shakespeare - 1885
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 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...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...
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The castle of Santa Fe, by [the] author of Jealousy; or, The ..., Volume 1

Cleeve - 1805 - 276 pages
...but still trust to a future more candid judgment to operate a change in his favour. CHAP. CHAP. VIII. Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death,...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 410 pages
...sympathy in choice, War, death, 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...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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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...Lys. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends : Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War,...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...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 472 pages
...there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it uiomentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;...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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The Discarded Son: Or, Haunt of the Banditti. A Tale ...

Regina Maria Roche - English fiction - 1807 - 498 pages
...of years, Or elsr it stood upon the choice of friends : Or if there were a sympathy in choice, Wir, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it...short as any dream ; Brief as the light*ning in the colly'd night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth ; And ere a man hath power to tay.....
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The Soldier's Orphan, Volume 3

Mrs. Costello - 1809 - 214 pages
...different in blood, Or else misgrafted in respect of years; Or else it stood upon the choice of friends: Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death,...as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream. SHAKESPEAK. REJOICED at having been successful in her application, Louisa seized the first opportunity...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...Or else it stood upon the choice of .friends ; — Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's «ye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War,...siege to it ; Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as * shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,* • [3] AS spotless is...
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Anselmo; or, The day of trial, Volumes 1-2

Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...hi respect of years ; Or else it stood upon the choice of friends ; Or if there were -a sympathy ki choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 12

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 - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...of Shakspeare's words applies too literally to the fair promise of this favoured mind — for death did lay siege to it; Making it momentary as a sound,...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...
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