 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 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...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 very diversity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1990 - 292 pages
...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 powder, Which,...kiss, consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately: long love... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 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 just... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...It cannot countervail the exchange of joyThat one short minute gives me in her sight. (II, vi) 149 TrGrPo; WiR Corso POETRY QUOTATIONS The Grasshopper...happy Thou, Dost neither Age, nor Winter know. Bu (II, vi) 150 Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron all in black. And learn me how to lose a winning... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...perhaps beautiful because dangerous — signify? Like the blaze of gunpowder, says Friar Laurence: These violent delights have violent ends And in their...like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. (2.6.9) To be sure, the friar is an old man, skeptical of youth's ways; yet can we help reflecting... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence advises Romeo not to be over-hasty or rash in his love, saying: 'These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumph die; like fre and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. ' (3.4. 7) Which two lines in this sonnet are most similar... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...Then love-devouring death do what he dare, — It is enough I may but call her mine. FRIAR LAURENCE. ace hath tutor'd; Whose white investments figure innocence, The dove and very blessed his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore, love moderately; long love... | |
 | Robert Mattson - Drama - 1997 - 132 pages
...words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine. FRIAR LAWRENCE. These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like spark and powder, Which, when they kiss, explode. The sweetest honey Is loathsome when it's eaten all... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 290 pages
...with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare It is enough I may but cali her mine. FRIAR These violent delights have violent ends And in their...Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsomc in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately.... | |
 | Frederick Turner - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...perfection, we risk the loss of the entire investment the master has made in us. As Friar Lawrence warns: These violent delights have violent ends And in their...like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume . . . Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. (H.vi.9)... | |
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These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die : like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. 
