 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 Young lady's magazine - Seite 4191838Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 416 Seiten
...Index, Index B, vi, 'Miscellaneous'; The Sovereign Flower, 317). Love, in thought or act, may be called Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That,...hath power to say, 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, i, i, 145) Or as Juliet has it: I have no joy of this contract... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 Seiten
...it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning tn devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. HERMIA. If, then, true lovers have been ever... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - 2002 - 488 Seiten
...Reading sehe as sahe. gi Hard, rough, soft, woolly, velvety, hairy, stilT, smooth, sleek, bristly. That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,...hath power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up4•' then naturally this will be done by a word which through the help of an intermediary... | |
 | John Sallis - 2002 - 144 Seiten
...various ways in which love can all too soon be brought to an end. The passage concludes as follows: And, ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!', The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (Ii147-49) 49. Gadamer, Wnhchcii und Methodc,... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - 2003 - 228 Seiten
...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,...hath power to say 'Behold!', The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.141-49) Lysander describes the brevity... | |
 | Ulrich Moustakas - 2003 - 322 Seiten
...209,32-36. 13 Nil, 208,22f. 94 Ebd. Z. 23. 15 Ebd. Z. 24. 6 Vgl. Hamanns Anmerkung, N II, 208,36-40: „Brief as the lightning in the collied night, / That (in a spleen) unfolds heav'n and earth / And ere man has power to say: Behold! / The jaws of darkness do devour it up. /... | |
 | William J. Bausch - 2004 - 220 Seiten
...Shakespeare harbored the same notion, only he put it more elegantly: Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds heaven and earth, And ere man hath power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So... | |
 | André Green, Gregorio Kohon - 2005 - 132 Seiten
...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,...hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (A Midsummer Night's Dream I, 1. 140-150) Sources,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 900 Seiten
...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...hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. HERMIA If then true lovers have been ever crossed,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2005 - 68 Seiten
...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,...heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!1 The jaws of darkness do devour it up1. So quick bright things come to confusion. Or if the... | |
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