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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 and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim ... - Page 88
by William Shakespeare - 1790
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Renaissance Drama 32: New Series 32

Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall - 2003 - 264 pages
...figure closely recalls the Friar's early concern over the intensity of the lovers' infatuation: "These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume" (2.6.9-11). In evoking this earlier reference, Romeo's words appropriate the scale and...
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The Shakespeare Oracle: Let the Bard Predict Your Future

180 pages
...finding the path between extremes. Friar Laurence cautions Romeo to love moderately, warning that "These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume" (2.6.9). You may need to exercise self-control or frugality, or relax an overly rigid...
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Holy Estates: Marriage and Monarchy in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Sid Ray - 2004 - 236 pages
...like of me" (5.4.58-59). In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo implores Friar I^awrence, "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" (2.6.6-8). 67. Katherine Rowe locates this scene within both the heroic tradition and the marital one....
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Renaissance Go-betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels - 2005 - 312 pages
...constant intertwining of images of love and death, as in Friar Laurence's early warning to Romeo: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. (II.5.9-11) Romeo will compare the lethal action of the poison running through his veins...
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Shakespeare's Tragic Sequence

Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pages
...stumble that run fast'; and in the next scene in which he again advises Romeo to 'love moderately': These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. The Friar also saves Romeo from despair and suicide when he is banished. It is plain...
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The Art of Loving

S.P.Sharma - 2007 - 132 pages
...Friar Lawrence warns Romeo and Juliet, whose state of mind is manifest to him all too clearly: These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume: the sweeter honey Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies

Janette Dillon - 2007 - 147 pages
...pronouncing on the danger of this rush of love: Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. (2.3.90) These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume; (2.6.9-11) and his perspective highlights the moralising aspect which was noted in chapter...
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