 Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.  Poems and Prose Writings - Page 69by Richard Henry Dana - 1850Full view - About this book
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...thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when... | |
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 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 446 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night ! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens. Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when... | |
 | Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1808 - 264 pages
...place." A sickening spasm seized her heart : a passing glo\v tinged her cheek, and vanished — '• like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens." " The bride, if she chooses, may be happy," pursued the doctor, apparently regardless of her Demotion... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 482 pages
...thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.1 Sweet, good night !z This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous... | |
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