 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 494 psl.
...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...' 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 edict... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 238 psl.
...measure. See Gr. 490. The verb is always contract. 1 19. Like the lightning, etc. Cf. MND i. I. 145 : " Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That,...'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come ^o confusion." 124. As that, etc. As to that heart, etc. 131. Frank. Bountiful (Schmidt).... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 psl.
...upon the fact that the "course of true love never did run smooth," and laments the fact that it is — Momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as..." Behold ! " The jaws of darkness do devour it up. Further on, in the same play, Shakspeare is supposed to have paid Queen Elizabeth the following compliment.... | |
 | 1917 - 726 psl.
...Shakespeare's interpretation of the tale — a story of a love to which hatred and death laid siege, making it: "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." Brooke and Shakespeare veraciously presented so bright a thing as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 104 psl.
...friends,— 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,...and earth, And ere a man hath power to say ' Behold !' HER. O hell! to choose love by another's eyes. 140 The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 psl.
...another's eye ! Lyi. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it ; shoots at him, I set him there ; Whoever charges on...death was <o effected : better 'twere I met the ravin bright things come to confusion. Her If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 432 psl.
...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 tilings come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands as an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 326 psl.
...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,...' 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 edict... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 506 psl.
...choice 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,...and earth, And ere a man hath power to say ' Behold 1' The jaws of darkness do devour it up ; So quick bright things come to confusion." We remember once... | |
 | John Brown - 1882 - 474 psl.
...opposite of an indifferentist, being very strong in his own convictions, holding them keenly, even Brief as the lightning In the collied night, That..." The jaws of darkness do devour it up ; So quick bright things come to confusion. * We remember once quoting these lines to a lady, and being rather... | |
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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 :... 
