| William Shakespeare - 1745 - 582 pages
...choice, War, death, or ficknels did lay liege to it ; Making it momentary as a found, Swift as a ihadow, fhort as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That (in a fpleen) unfolds both heav'n and earth ; And ere a man hath power to fay. Behold ! The jaws... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama - 1762 - 460 pages
...Or elfe it flood upon the choice of friends • Her. O hdl ! to choolie love by another's eye ! Lyf, Or if there were a fympathy in choice, War, death,...as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied nighr, That (in a fplecn) unfolds both heav'n and earth ; And ere a man hath power to fay, Behold I... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1771 - 424 pages
...elfe it ftood upon the choice of friends — — Her. O hell ! to chufe love by another's eye ! Lyf. Or if there were a fympathy in choice, War, death,...dream, " Brief as the lightning in the collied night, •• That (in a fpleen) unfolds both heav'n and earth ; " And here a man hath power to fay, Behold... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1784 - 1116 pages
...there were a fympathy in choice. War, death, or ficknef s, did lay fiege to it ; Making it momenlauy as a found, Swift as a fhadow, fhort as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colly 'd 3 night, That, in a fpleen *, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man. hath power to... | |
| George Anne Bellamy - Actors - 1786 - 248 pages
...death, or ficknefs, did lay fiege to it; Making it momentary as a found ; Swift as a fliadow ; fliort as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied...*. I received, about this time, a letter from Mr. Alderman Cracroft, my attorney in London, informing me, that Mr. Davy's attorney had orders to fue... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1790 - 554 pages
...to choofe love by another's eye ! Lvf. Or, if there were afympathy in choice, Making it momentany 9 as a found, \ Swift as a fhadow, fhort as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colly'd night', That, in a fpleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to fay,—Behold... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1793 - 582 pages
...fympathy in choice, War, death, or (icknefs did lay liege to it ; Making it momentany as a found,5 Swift as a fhadow, fhort as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,5 4 too high to be enthrall' d to low !] Love — pofleffes all the editions, but carries no... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1797 - 594 pages
...elfe it flood upon the choice of friends :— HER. O hell ! to choofe love by another's eye ! Lrs. Or, if there were a fympathy in choice, War, death,...dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, . „ VOL. I. K k That, in a fpleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to fay,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 386 pages
...there were a fympathy in choice, War, death, or ficknefs did lay fiege to it ; Making it momentany as a found, Swift as a fhadow, fhort as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colly'd night,[5] That, in a fpleen,[6] unfolds both heaven and earth, C4] Give them, bcftow upon them.... | |
| Dorothea Kehler - Comedy - 1998 - 520 pages
...universal madness of Nature and History, brief are the moments of happiness: . . . Swift as a shadow, short as any dream. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, ... (I, I) NOTES *From Shakespeare our Contemporary by Jan Kott. Copyright (c) l964 by Paristwowe Wydawnictwo... | |
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