“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: So quick bright things come to confusion.”
A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. Act I, Sc. 1, Line 132.
By William Shakespeare [1564-1616].
Pulled from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett. Published by Little, Brown and Company 1955 Page 141.
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“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: So quick bright things come to confusion.”
A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. Act I, Sc. 1, Line 132.
By William Shakespeare [1564-1616].
Pulled from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett. Published by Little, Brown and Company 1955 Page 141.