 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 450 ページ
...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...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. Her.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 292 ページ
...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,...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.... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 ページ
...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,...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. (1.1.142-149)... | |
 | Peter Brook - 1974 - 300 ページ
...sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, f* Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That...both heaven and earth, And - ere a man hath power to say 'Behold !' — Guitar stops The jaws of darkness do devour it up. || So quick bright things come... | |
 | John Weld - 1975 - 266 ページ
...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,...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. (1.1.132-149)... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 ページ
...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,...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. [Ii 143-49]... | |
 | Stuart M. Tave - 1993 - 294 ページ
...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,...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. (I,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 ページ
...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,...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. HERMIA... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - 1994 - 284 ページ
...night, 145 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...been ever cross'd, It stands as an edict in destiny. 151 Then let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a customary cross, As due to love as thoughts... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 ページ
...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,...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" (lll43-49).... | |
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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 ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up :... 
