 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 560 pages
...years. Lys. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends. Her. O spite ! too old to be engaged to young! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it momentany a as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1846 - 574 pages
...there were a sympathy in choice, War. death, 01- 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,5 [3] As tpntless is innocent, so spotted is wicked. JOHNSON. [4] Give them, bestow upon them.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 474 pages
...engag'd to young ! Lys. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends : Her. 0 hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy...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... | |
 | Peter Brook - Drama - 1974 - 300 pages
...stood upon the choice of friends — HERMlA 0 hell! — to choose love by another's eyes. LYSANDER Or if there were 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, f* Brief as the lightning in the collied... | |
 | John Weld - Performing Arts - 1975 - 266 pages
...Lys. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends— Her. O hell! to choose love by another's eyes! Lys. Or, if there were 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... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 168 pages
...else it stood upon the choice of friends, Hermia. O hell ! to choose love by another's eyes. Lysander. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it. searing, shocking, provocative and disturbing refusal to lay down the treasure of her body to the Lord... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...difficulties 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!"... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - Education - 1993 - 294 pages
...no other 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!',... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - Literature - 1994 - 284 pages
...Lys.: Or else it stood upon the choice of friends— Her.: O hell, to choose love by another's eyes! Lys.: Or if there were 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...it stood upon the choice of friends HERMIA O hell! - to choose love by another's eyes. 140 LYSANDER Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, 12; Against in preparation for 'Shakespeare makes the two star1 26 nearly that concerns that closely... | |
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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. 
