Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

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 Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.