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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 Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed - Page 102
by William Shakespeare - 1825 - 896 pages
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Everyman's Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations

William Shakespeare - 1964 - 618 pages

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Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 8

Electronic journals - 1957 - 616 pages

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Tragic Drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Shakespeare: An Essay

Lewis Campbell - Greek drama (Tragedy) - 1965 - 344 pages

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Studies in German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: Some Aspects of ...

Edna Purdie - Comparative literature - 1965 - 250 pages

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The Lockwood Concern: A Novel

John O'Hara - 1965 - 424 pages

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Keats's Shakespeare: A Descriptive Study

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - England - 1966 - 226 pages

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Byron and Shakespeare

George Wilson Knight - England - 1966 - 418 pages

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare, Stanley W. Wells - Drama - 1967 - 180 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,...heaven and earth, And - ere a man hath power to say l Behold T The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So qu1ck bright things come to confusion. There is...

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Dictionary of Quotations

Bergen Evans - Quotations - 1968 - 2142 pages

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The Sole Voice: Character Portraits from Shakespeare

Philip Burton - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1970 - 456 pages

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