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" 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 1 ' The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. "
Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's Dream - Page 48
by William Shakespeare - 1877 - 195 pages
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The Plays, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 352 pages
...friends : Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Making it momentany f as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied J night,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1825 - 508 pages
...there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Making it momentanyt as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colliedf night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 482 pages
...friends : Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Making it momentany as a sound,7 Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, 8 That,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...friends : Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making it momentany 10 as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied n night,...
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The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ...

William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...respect of years; Or else it stood upon the choice of friends: Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, , War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making...short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the colliedf night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,...
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The Stanley tales, original and select, Volume 1

Ambrose Marten - Tales - 1827 - 382 pages
...there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; ' Makinj! it momentary as a sound, .. • , •. Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colHed night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and eartb, And ere a man hath power to say —...
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare: With a Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1828 - 378 pages
...friends: Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it ; Making it momentany as a sonnd, Swift as a shadow, suort as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 506 pages
...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 collied4 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,—...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 21

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...torment to her. Shaluftart. Charge not in your tpleen a noble person, And spoil your nobler soul. H. Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfold: both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say, behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 420 pages
...friends : Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's eye ! Lys. Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; Making...short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the colliedk night, That, in a spleen,i unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,...
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