 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...if there were a sympathy hi choice, Wnr, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, 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. Her. If, then, true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Great Britain - 1848 - 516 pages
...eloquent and touching passage in Shakespeare, speaking of the uncertainty of worldly affection : — " Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the...! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion." God to defend you against all evils, and that he be your shield.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege toit; Making it momi'iitany * th Against an oath : The truth thou art unsure To swear, bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...revelling.— THR. I., 1. 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,...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.—LTS.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...another's eye ! 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 crossed, It stands as an edict... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pages
...another's eye ! 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,...!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever crossed, It stands as an edict... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...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,...behold, The jaws of darkness do devour it up, So quick bright things come to confusion. SARCASM. QUEEN MARGARET SARCASTICALLY DESCRIBING KING HENRY VI. What... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...friends : Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Makiug it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short...Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. 7 — i. 1. 416. Love, trials of. 0, thou didst then ne'er love so... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 928 pages
...if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany rriage, a slow tongue, in the habit of some sir of note, and so forth. bright things come to confusion. Her. If, then, true lovers have been ever crosi'd, It stands as an... | |
 | 1854 - 142 pages
...how darkly roll long centuries of ignorance and gloom — how like the fitful meteor's flash, or, " Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That...say, behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up " — appear and disappear, 'mid troubled skies, the temples of Freedom and the citadels of Truth.... | |
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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 :... 
