 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 :...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1451836Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1600 - 98 pages
...as any dream, • £ Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds botli heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! j The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. 2 Her. If then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colly'd night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The The jaws of darkness do devour it up : 150 So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...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 : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied7 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 : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 328 pages
...short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the rollied night, Thai, in .i spleen, nnfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold! The JAwB of darkness do devonr it np: So qnick bright things come to continion. Her. If then trne lovers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...Jonson's Poetaster: " Thou hast not collied thy face enough." Steevens. s 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/] Though the word spleen be here employed oddly enough, ^et I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,8 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: So quick bright things come to contusion. Her. If then true... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...short as any dream ; Brief as the 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 do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...as any dream ; 13rief as the lightning in the colly'd ' niglijt 1'hat, in a spleen ', unlolds 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. Iier. If then true... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...the northern counties) to pour out ; from tomner, Danish. STEEVENS. That, in a spleen, unfolds6 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. If then true... | |
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