 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 500 pages
...darkness do detour it up." This thought, a little varied, occurs in Romeo and Juliet. Too sudden, Too like the lightning, that doth cease to be Ere one can say — it lightens !" 327. " Then let us teach our trial patience." Patience a trisyllable. " To make all split." Thus... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 416 pages
...joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night; It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, Too like the lightning, that doth cease to be, Ere one can say, it lightens. — Sweet, good night, This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower,... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - 1808 - 418 pages
...joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night ; It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, Too like the lightning, that doth cease to be, Ere one can say, it lightens. — Sweet, good night, This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower,... | |
 | 1836 - 440 pages
...voice of society. — Fortune is too transitory, too fugitive, to excite any permanent regard; it is like " the lightning that doth cease to be, ere one can say — it lightens;" and, although It may be exercised for oppression and compel thousands to acknowledge and submit to... | |
 | Joseph O'Leary, A Cork artist - 1833 - 244 pages
...views of mankind beyond the limits of my own country, I, in the earlier part of my research, verysimply though very naturally, attributed all the evils that...It is true I read of plagues, earthquakes, famines, massa106 cres—I knew there were wars; but, will it be believed ? there was no association in my mind... | |
 | 1839 - 556 pages
...the voice of society. Fortune is too transitory, too fugitive, to excite any permanent regard ; it is like " the lightning that doth cease to be, ere one can say — it lightens ;" and, although it may be exercised for oppression and compel thousands to acknowledge and submit... | |
 | Thomas Brothers - 1840 - 618 pages
...instead of which its beams, in America, become fainter every day ; and in France the beam was too like " lightning that doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens." As to the veil, surely the greatest lover of light cannot complain that it was not sufficiently rent.... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1843 - 606 pages
...shall we be told that their patriotism was but the brilliant flash of a transitory passion,—" too like the lightning that doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens ?" Are the traits of heroism, or the traces of love of country displayed in that struggle so easily... | |
 | Jones - 1870 - 172 pages
...every pulse of life is blent, And like the snn's light on the sea Brightens the darkly element. * " Too like the lightning that doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens."— SHAKESPEARE. SONG. (TO THE TUNE OF "EVELYN'S BOWER). OF Hope, with golden hair, So blithe and debonair,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 216 pages
...907 ; T. of S. iii. 2. 10, etc.), and the like. 147. Ere a man, etc. Cf. K. andj. ii. 2. 119 : " Too like the lightning that doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens."* 149. Confusion. Ruin, destruction ; as in Macb. ii. 3. 71, iii. 5. 29, etc. The word is here a quadrisyllable.... | |
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Too like the lightning that doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.' ' 149. Confusion. Ruin, destruction ; as in Macb. ii. 3. 71, iii. 5. 29, etc. The word is here a quadrisyllable. Gr. 479. Cf. patience, three lines below. 
