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" These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ! like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and ... - Page 59
by William Shakespeare - 1765
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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 400 pages
...with Rosaline ! His will had come to the clenching point. Ib. sc. 6. Rom. Do thou but close our bands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine. The precipitancy, which is the character of the play, is well marked in this short scene of waiting...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 50, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight : Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death...he dare. It is enough I may but call her mine. Fri. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ; like fire and powder, Which, as...
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The dramatic (poetical) works of William Shakspeare; illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 602 pages
...cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight. Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death...he dare. It is enough I may but call her mine. Fri. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ! like fire and powder, Which, as...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 712 pages
...cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight. Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death...he dare. It is enough I may but call her mine. Fri. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ! like fire and powder, Which, as...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight. Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death...he dare. It is enough I may but call her mine. Fri. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ! like fire and pow7der, Which,...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. VIOLENT DELIGHTS NOT LASTING. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder. Which, as they kiss, consume. LOVERS LIGHT OF FOOT. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:...
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Shakespeare's Tragedies: An Introduction

Dieter Mehl - 1986 - 286 pages
...homiletic banality nor are they offered to us as a definitive evaluation of the young people's love: These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. (11.6.9-11) This is the voice of experience and wisdom, not a confident verdict. The...
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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare - 1990 - 292 pages
...cannot countervail the exchange of joy 5 That one short minute gives me in her sight. Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death...what he dare. It is enough I may but call her mine. Friar Lawrence These violent delights have violent ends, 10 And in their triumph die; like fire and...
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Romantic Medicine and John Keats

Hermione de Almeida - 1990 - 429 pages
...deliciousness / And in the taste confounds the appetite," Friar Lawrence says to Romeo in warning that "violent delights have violent ends / And in their...triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume."9 Christopher Ricks is correct in noting that Keats evokes honey and its attributes not...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...cannot countervail the exchange of joyThat one short minute gives me in her sight. (II, vi) 149 These o; WiR Corso POETRY QUOTATIONS The Grasshopper Happy Insect, happy Thou, Dost neither Age, nor W kiss consume. (II, vi) 150 Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron all in black. And learn me how...
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