 Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature...  Fleetwood: Or, The New Man of Feeling - Page 69by William Godwin - 1805 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 524 pages
...Caseins first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is .Like a phantasms*, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
 | John William Cunningham - Religion - 1816 - 242 pages
...the unities, is yet a philosopher and a poet. He says, " Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream." Gustavus could attest the truth of this, for he was to travel, and he was in love. " It is hard," he... | |
 | Henry Curling - English fiction - 1852 - 142 pages
...to be in time for the awful sight ; so true is it that " Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream." " and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection." Even... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 532 pages
...ing the learned Judges of the words of Shakespeare : " Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream ; The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council : and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
 | Georg Gottfried Gervinus - 1863 - 676 pages
...imaginations and cares torment him day and night \ as he says, "Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream: The genius and the mortal instruments, Are then in council : and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1873 - 758 pages
...thus forcibly describes a conceived intention : — • Between'.the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream : The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...cool his tongue. Bj>. Taylor 493 UTTENTION— Interim of. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments Are then in council ; and the state of man. Like to a little... | |
 | 1912 - 740 pages
...Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. (2. 1. 61) Even on this night, Cassius directs that letters be placed in the prsetor's chair and upon... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...of dreadful note. ••lit,:*. Aa ULSc.*. SHAKESPEARE. Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream : The Genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little... | |
 | William Godwin - Fiction - 2000 - 550 pages
...visiters that it would be an unprecedented exertion to him, and that he must string up his mind to the task: it was ultimately fixed for the day following....thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream."2 He felt the sort of arrogance which was implied, in the seating himself... | |
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