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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. "
The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copy ... - Page 89
by William Shakespeare - 1811
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Unlocking Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jeannette Sanderson - Drama - 2003 - 6 pages
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The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Jan H. Blits - Drama - 2003 - 228 pages
...sickness: Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, sickness 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!',...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...stood upon the choice of friends, — IIF.RMIA O hell! to choose love by another's eyes. I.YSANDER Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it. might well evoke a gleam in the eye of the most depraved marquis in the audience, to say nothing of...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1993 - 260 pages
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dinah Jurksaitis - 2004 - 84 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, (Unes ¡35-42) (Line 136 implies a difference in social status.) 2 How could a director highlight differences...
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Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary

Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - Poetry - 2004 - 520 pages
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare - 2005 - 68 pages
...didn't match up O spite! Too old to be engaged to young! Terrible1. One too old, the other too young! 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...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 1344 pages
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Love and Its Vicissitudes

André Green, Gregorio Kohon - Family & Relationships - 2005 - 130 pages
...Night's Dream, Hermia laments: HERMIA O hell! to choose love by another's eyes, [her father's] LYSANDER Or, if there were 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...
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The Great Comedies and Tragedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...else 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 Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied...
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