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Page 7
... Houses ; when , after many have been killed and wounded on both sides , Romeo comes in , tries to appease with gentle words the fury of Tybalt , and at last kills him in self - defence . The Poet's change in this point is highly ...
... Houses ; when , after many have been killed and wounded on both sides , Romeo comes in , tries to appease with gentle words the fury of Tybalt , and at last kills him in self - defence . The Poet's change in this point is highly ...
Page 12
... Houses only swelling in them the emotions that prevent their sympathizing with it . Thus the Poet carries us smoothly along through all the aching joys and giddy transports of the lovers , by his manner of disposing the objects and ...
... Houses only swelling in them the emotions that prevent their sympathizing with it . Thus the Poet carries us smoothly along through all the aching joys and giddy transports of the lovers , by his manner of disposing the objects and ...
Page 13
... Houses have caught the fury of their masters , and are spiteful and quar- relsome for no other reason than that their natural fires are so much stifled beneath the artificial crust . They must needs fight , because to ape their betters ...
... Houses have caught the fury of their masters , and are spiteful and quar- relsome for no other reason than that their natural fires are so much stifled beneath the artificial crust . They must needs fight , because to ape their betters ...
Page 14
... house divided against itself , where principle and impulse strive each for supremacy , and rule by turns ; headlong and sensual in his passions , cunning and selfish in his reason . Now this fatal divorce of reason and passion is the ...
... house divided against itself , where principle and impulse strive each for supremacy , and rule by turns ; headlong and sensual in his passions , cunning and selfish in his reason . Now this fatal divorce of reason and passion is the ...
Page 16
... Houses , that is punished in their death ; and the awful lesson we read in their fate is against that barba- rism of civilization which makes love excessive by trying to exclude it from its rightful place in life , and which subjects ...
... Houses , that is punished in their death ; and the awful lesson we read in their fate is against that barba- rism of civilization which makes love excessive by trying to exclude it from its rightful place in life , and which subjects ...
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ancient art thou banished beauty BENVOLIO breath Collier's second folio crystal scales dead dear death dost doth dream Enter CAPULET Enter ROMEO Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewell fear flower Friar LAURENCE gentle gentleman give gleek gone grave hand hath heart Heaven hence holy Houses Juliet Julius Cæsar kinsman kiss Lady CAPULET Lettsom lives look lord love's lovers Madam Mantua marriage married means Mercutio Montague nature night Nurse o'er old copies read old text pardonnez-mois Paris passion peace play Poet Poet's Prince quarrel quarto Romeo and Juliet Rosaline SCENE sense Servant Shakespeare slain sleep soul speak speech stay sweet tears tell thee Theobald thine thing thou art thou hast thou wilt to-night true Twelfth Night Tybalt Verona vex'd villain weep word