 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 страници
...Or else it stood upon the choice of .friends ; — Her. O hell ! to choose love by another's «ye ! Lys. 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 * shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1812 - 430 страници
...different in blood, Or else misgrafted in 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. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Scene 1. Oh ! thou didat then ne'er love so heartily, It thou remembercst... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 500 страници
...there were -a sympathy ki 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 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth : And ere a man hath power to say — Behold... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 страници
...literally to the fair promise of this favoured mind — for death 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, That in a spleen unfolds both earth and hearen, And ere a man hath power to say — Behold !... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 страници
...different in blood, Or else misgrafted in 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 it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 344 страници
...O spite ! too old to be cogag'd to young'. Lys. Or else it stood upon the choic.-. of friends ;— Lys. 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... | |
 | 1836 - 884 страници
...if there were a sympatby in choice, Wtr, 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 night, Tbnt, in a spleen, unfolds hoth heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say — behold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 страници
...in blood ; Or else misgraffed, in 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 it momentany 3 as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 260 страници
...different in blood, Or else misgrafted in 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. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Scene 1. Oh ! thou didst then ne'er love so heartily, If thou rememberest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 476 страници
...engaged to young ! lat. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends : Her. O 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 momentary as a sound, , Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied... | |
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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. 
