...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,...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. HERMIA 150 If then...

...did flower, then as Lysander says War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.142-149) For an instant the shadow of Romeo and Juliet falls across...

...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,...jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. (1.1.132-149) 194 This is one of the first great lyric show-stoppers in Shakespeare's...

...eyes. Lysander Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; 145 Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow,...and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, 'Behold! ', 1 50 The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion. Hermia If then...

...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,...jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. [Ii 143-49] These magnificent words are Lysander 's.14 One may wonder whether...

...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,...jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. (I, i, 141-49) The shadow, the dream, the night, may not be friends, the...

...quoted from in the 137 misgraffeJ badly matched Introduction (page 209), comments: Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. HERMIA 1 50 If then true lovers have been ever crossed It stands as an edict...

...difficulties we experience in self-apprehension: both situations yield an insight that is "momentany as a sound, / Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,...jaws of darkness do devour it up: / So quick bright things come to confusion" (lll43-49). No sooner do we figure the mind than we disfigure it with terms...

...STATES OF AMERICA 20 19 18 17 16 To all my sisters, not of blood but of the heart. There 's the magic. Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the...jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Prologue THREE SISTERS ISLAND SEPTEMBER 1699 She...

...sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, 145 Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That...jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion. 150-1 If then . . . destiny-, if true lovers have always ('ever') been frustrated...