 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 Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c - Page 3401824Full view - About this book
 | Regina Maria Roche - English fiction - 1807 - 498 pages
...momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the light*ning in the colly'd night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth ; And ere a man hath power to tay.. ..Behold I The jaws of darkness do devour it op, So quick bright things come to confusion * His... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...short 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 lovers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...(.is m 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 lovers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 436 pages
...momentanyt as a sound, Swift as » shadow, short as any dream j Brief as the lightning in the colHedJ night. That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and...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 lovers... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 520 pages
...as a sound,7 Swift as a 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 confusion. Her. If then true lovers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 452 pages
...short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied J night. That, in a spleen, unfolds hoth heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick hright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...Collied, ie black, smutted with coal, a word still used in the mid land 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 y So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 pages
...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...: And ere a man hath power to say — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. SHAKESPEARE. V.jhat kind... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...colly 'd night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, Brief at the lightning in the colly'd night, \ ' That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven...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, yet I believe... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...in a spleen unfolds both earth and hearen, And ere a man hath power to say — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up ; So quick bright things come to confusion. - A biographical account, written at some length and with much. feeling, is prefixed to the memoirs... | |
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