 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1967 - 308 pages
...marriage-sermon, with the advice, 'love moderately. Long love doth so.' These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. I1.6.9-11 The theme is taken up again by the Friar, later in the play, when he is trying to arouse... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...us as a definitive evaluation of the young people's love: These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die 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... | |
 | Sidney Homan - Drama - 1988 - 248 pages
...changes, Shakespeare insists upon exercising the proper "limit": "The sweetest honey / Is loathesome in his own deliciousness / And in the taste confounds...Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow" (Romeo and Juliet, 2.6.11-15). No less, he was sensitive to the possibility... | |
 | 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,...appetite. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; 15 Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. [Enter Juliet] Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot Will... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
...nineteenth century) in the medicinal powers of honey as anodyne, balm, antidote, and vivifying agent. "The sweetest honey / Is loathsome in his own 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...joyThat one short minute gives me in her sight. (II, vi) 149 These violent delights have violent ends Grasshopper Happy Insect, 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
...signify? Like the blaze of gunpowder, says Friar Laurence: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, 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 - 1996 - 1290 pages
...— It is enough I may but call her mine. FRIAR LAURENCE. These violent delights have violent ends, figure innocence, The dove and very blessed arrives as tardy as too slow. — Here comes the lady: — O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the... | |
 | Carl Pietzcker - Humanities - 1996 - 256 pages
...süßeste Honig ist durch seine eigene Köstlichkeit widerlich und verdirbt im Schmecken den Appetit: The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. [II, 6, 11-13] Juliet [must] steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks [II, Ch., 8], sie muß süßen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1998 - 290 pages
...do what he dare It is enough I may but cali her mine. FRIAR These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsomc in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately.... | |
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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 sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite : Therefore love moderately ; long... 
