 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 : So quick bright things come to...  The Comedy of A Midsummer Night's Dream - Sida 25efter William Shakespeare - 1600 - 75 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 582 sidor
...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 ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night 2, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — behold !... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 sidor
...short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night 2, 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 - 1843 - 658 sidor
...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, And ere a man hath power to say, " Behold !" The jaws of darkness do devour... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet - 1985 - 332 sidor
...275b-c; translated by HN Fowler, Loeb Classical Library (London, 1914)] qq. I Samuel, xrv, 24. rr. ' Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That (in a spleen) unfolds heav'n and earth And ere man has power to say : Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up.' Shakespeare,... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 sidor
...of young love and above all on its brevity and uncertainty, calling it . . . momentany 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... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - 1993 - 294 sidor
...tried to stop the course, war, death or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 sidor
...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, 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... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - 1994 - 284 sidor
...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, Brief as the lightning in the collied night. What makes that passage of dialogue seem not like people having a chat? What distinguishes it from... | |
 | Gwen Griffith Dickson - 1995 - 564 sidor
...for you; you think 35 43 1 Sam. 14.24 34a it matters who the speaker is and where he comes from.' 44 Brief as the lightning in the collied night That (in a spleen) unfolds heav'n and earth And ere man has power to say: Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. single... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 sidor
...a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, 3 1 hat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, 'Behold!' The jaws... | |
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