...Aristotle I what would'st thou say to this ? Wit S. ( With dignity.} — Let Aristotle say what he thinks fit — Shakspeare replies : — What is so...twinkling of an eye descends From thence, into the fathomless abyss Of earth's deep centre, or the ocean's bed ! From east to west, from pole to pole,...

...witnessing the effects produced in southern climes. These are often very beautiful, but — " Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere we can say — it lightens !" At night a heavy storm passed over, and the flashes were unusually grand ; the rain poured down...

...houses of parliament by the representatives of the government. One of our national poets refers to " The lightning which doth cease to be, Ere we can say it lightens ;" and Wheatstone, as the result of some beautiful investigations, considered the velocity of electricity...

...comprehension in such portion. A second of time is as much one, in contemplation, as a century. A flash of lightning— which doth cease to be Ere we can say it lightens 3 — may be no less contemplated and reasoned upon as one conception, than may a revolution of the...

...temporis acti se puero. The actors' actual influence is so ephemeral, so purely personal — " So like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere we can say it lightens" — and the taste of and for the theatre is so much affected by the fashions of the day, that this...

...bard's supposed first production. — The Author. Wil. S. [With dignity.] Let Aristotle say what he thinks fit — Shakspeare replies :— What is so...say it lightens !" The glowing fancy soars aloft to heaTen, And, in the twinkling of an eye, descends From thence, into the falhomles abyss Of earth's...