| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 466 страници
...stars, these earthly stars supply their place, and light it up So again, ir>this play: " Her heauty hangs upon the cheek of night, " Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear " Wurhnrtm. But why nonsense i is any thing more commonU said, than that heauties eclipse the sun?... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 480 страници
...ROM- What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight ?7 SERV. I know not, sir. ROM. O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright ! Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night8 Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear :9 Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear ! Will you... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 страници
...promptings of his own will, it would have been a simile. And so, when Romeo says of Juliet, — " 0, she doth teach the torches to burn bright ! Her beauty...cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear " ; here we have two metaphors, and also one simile. Juliet cannot be said literally to teach the torches... | |
| Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg - 1815 - 786 страници
...doth her beauty serve , but as a note, JWhere I may read, who pass'd that passing fair? * • • O she doth teach the torch.es to burn bright. Her beauty hangs upon the cheeks of night, Like a rieh Jewel in an Aethiops ear; Beauty too rieh for use, for earth too deart... | |
| Charles Inigo Jones - 1816 - 118 страници
...through which he past, and she retires with a thunder of applause, verifying Romeo's description, " O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright, Her beauty...hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an jEthiop's ear, Beauty too rich for me, for earth too dear." The balcony scene is rendered no less interesting,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 страници
...anger'd, puffs away from thence. Turning his face to the dew-droppiug south. A Beauty described. 0, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! Her beauty hangs upon the check of night, I-ike a rich jewel in an JEthiop's ear : "*juty too rich for use, for earth too dearl... | |
| Miss Stockdale (Mary R.) - 1816 - 172 страници
...amidst mountains so wild, so barren, and so bare ; that it appeared like the beauty of Juliet " on the cheek of night" — " like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear." The warmest approbation was given to this charming picture. "Is there really such a place ?" said Eloise.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 страници
...company and artificial splendour. " What lady's that which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight ? O she doth teach the torches to burn bright; Her beauty...hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an yEthiop's ear." It would be hard to say which of the two garden scenes is the finest, that where he... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 552 страници
...and artificial splendour. " What lady's that which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight ? •/ .,O she doth teach the torches to burn bright ; Her beauty...of night, Like a rich jewel in an ^Ethiop's ear." It would be hard to say which of the two garden scenes is the finest, that where he first converses... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 страници
...artificial splendour. " What lady's that which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight p O she doth leach the torches to burn bright ; Her beauty hangs upon...of night, Like a rich jewel in an ./Ethiop's ear." It would be hard to. say which of the two garden scenes is the finest, that where he first conver-... | |
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