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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: Pericles. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet - Page 21
by William Shakespeare - 1800
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...sir. Rom. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night 1 Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear: Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, As yonder lady o'er her fellows...
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Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable ..., Volumes 1-27

Great Britain - 1836 - 388 pages
...for the first time I ' guessed the cause of his dejection, when Romeo pronounced the words " U, she doth teach the torches to burn bright ! Her beauty...rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear ; Beauty too rich for use, — for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove, trooping with crows, As yonder lady o er her fellows...
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SHAKESPEARE

BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 pages
...the hand Of yonder knight? Ser. I know not, sir. Rom. Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn brighl! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear : Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows, As yonder lady o'er her fellows...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...yonder knight ? Serv. I know not, sir. Rom. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she a hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear ; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear ! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows. As yonder lady o'er her fellows...
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Head Over Heels

Albert T. Viola - Musicals - 1980 - 76 pages
...you to keep your tongue off me bosom. PUNCHINELLO, (continuing as if NURSE had never spoken) — who hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear, what a pleasure it is to renew your acquaintance since our assignation in the lilac bed. NURSE. Renew!...
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Wild Oats: A Romance of the Old West

James McLure - American drama - 1985 - 68 pages
...so sudden. ROVER. "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the check of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!" KATE. (Blushing modestly.) Well, I am the prettiest girl in Muleshoe. ROVER....
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Obra selecta de José Agustín Balseiro, Volume 1

José Agustín Balseiro - 1990 - 2356 pages
...que pone Shakespeare en labios de Romeo, cuando éste admira por vez primera a Julieta: It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear. —"Parece que cuelga sobre la mejilla de la noche como rica joya del oído de un etíope"...
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Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991

John Algeo, Adele S. Algeo - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 274 pages
...Earrings; ear ornaments [1594-95 Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet cd GL Kittrcdge 1.5.47-48 "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear." 1596-97 Mirth of Venice 3.1.92-93 "I would my daughter were dead at my feet and the jewels in her ear!"]...
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Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism

Sally Banes - Performing Arts - 1994 - 438 pages
...lines on seeing Juliet in Act I scene 5 — O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beaut}' too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shines a snow-white swan trooping with crows, As this...
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Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies

Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...comparing the beloved lady's beauty to various kinds of dazzling light becomes in his hands Juliet hanging upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear (1.5.46), Juliet showing at her window like a sunrise in the East (2.2.2), Juliet making even the grave...
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