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 79by William Shakespeare - 1885Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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..... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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