Tragedy of Romeo and JulietAmerican book Company, 1907 - 297 pages |
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1st quarto accent Apothecary art thou Balthasar banished beauty Benvolio Brooke's poem Capulet family cockatrice Cotgrave cousin Cymb dead dear death dost doth Dowden early eds earth editors Enter ROMEO Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell father folio Friar Laurence give gleek grave Gregory grief hand hate hath heart heaven hence holy hour kinsman kiss Lady Capulet Lear light lips lives look lord lovers Macb Madam Malone Mantua marriage married means Mercutio Montague morning murther Musician night Nurse Paris Peter play Prince prologue prose remarks Rich Romeo and Juliet Romeus Rosaline Sampson says scene Schmidt Servant Shakespeare slain Sonn soul speak speech stay Steevens quotes sweet syllable tears tell Temp thee thine thou art thou hast thou wilt Thursday to-night tomb trisyllable Tybalt Ulrici Verona verse vex'd word young
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Page 94 - Romeo ; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 201 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 51 - 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 69 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified.
Page 51 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Page 65 - I'll believe thee. Rom. If my heart's dear love— Jul. 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 50 - O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream : Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are. Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, And then dreams he of smelling out a suit : And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail, Tickling a parson's nose as 'a...
Page 66 - 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 56 - Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this. For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers
Page 50 - Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces, of the smallest spider's web, The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams...