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Page xiii
... Marriage , So soone to sunder us by timelesse Death ? Shall we conjecture that Shakespeare felt that the sense of fatality , though proper to Romeo , was less character- istic of the strong - willed Juliet ? QI , then , is an imperfect ...
... Marriage , So soone to sunder us by timelesse Death ? Shall we conjecture that Shakespeare felt that the sense of fatality , though proper to Romeo , was less character- istic of the strong - willed Juliet ? QI , then , is an imperfect ...
Page xxiii
... marriage by the use of a sleeping potion — is as old as Xenophon of Ephesus , whose romance of the loves of Anthia and Abrocomas was first printed from the only ex- isting manuscript in 1726.2 A tale of much more 1 See Alessandro ...
... marriage by the use of a sleeping potion — is as old as Xenophon of Ephesus , whose romance of the loves of Anthia and Abrocomas was first printed from the only ex- isting manuscript in 1726.2 A tale of much more 1 See Alessandro ...
Page xxv
... marriage ; the nurse has not yet appeared in the story ; for Paris we have here the Count of Lodrone ; Juliet awakens from her drugged sleep in the tomb before the poison has quite overcrowed the spirit of her husband , and a dialogue ...
... marriage ; the nurse has not yet appeared in the story ; for Paris we have here the Count of Lodrone ; Juliet awakens from her drugged sleep in the tomb before the poison has quite overcrowed the spirit of her husband , and a dialogue ...
Page xxix
... marriage shall be celebrated that after- noon . The lovers are married ; the encounter with Tybalt , " that an hour hath been my cousin , " follows . The sentence of banishment is pronounced ; but it is arranged that the new husband and ...
... marriage shall be celebrated that after- noon . The lovers are married ; the encounter with Tybalt , " that an hour hath been my cousin , " follows . The sentence of banishment is pronounced ; but it is arranged that the new husband and ...
Page xxx
... marriage ; all is turned from a wedding to a funeral ; Juliet is laid in the tomb of her ancestors . At a later hour of what seems to be the same day ( Wednesday ) , Balthasar informs Romeo of his wife's death ; Romeo obtains the poison ...
... marriage ; all is turned from a wedding to a funeral ; Juliet is laid in the tomb of her ancestors . At a later hour of what seems to be the same day ( Wednesday ) , Balthasar informs Romeo of his wife's death ; Romeo obtains the poison ...
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Page xxxv - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 37 - a lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice. Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 63 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 53 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 87 - These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.
Page 58 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Page 36 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight.
Page 53 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 62 - Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say — good night, till it be morrow.
Page 53 - Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand. That I might touch that cheek!