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" O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! 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! "
The Dramatic Works of David Garrick: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author - Page 101
by David Garrick - 1798 - 823 pages
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Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism

Sally Banes - 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...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight? SERVANT. I know not, sir. ROMEO. O, The nobles they are fled, the commons they T.ib- a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy...
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Bion of Smyrna: The Fragments and the Adonis

Bion - 1997 - 300 pages
...be drawn to the more concrete interpretation here by remembrance of R&J Act 1, se. v "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night | Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear". 45 "Astrorum decus" may combine Bion fr. 11.2-3. It |s not impossible that this phrase,...
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Much Ado about Murder

Robert Mattson - 1997 - 132 pages
...knight? SERVANT. I know not, sir. ROMEO. O, she does teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! She seems a snowy dove among the crows,...
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King Mackerel & the Blues are Running: Songs & Stories of the Carolina Coast

Bland Simpson - 1998 - 68 pages
...to remember the first thing that Romeo says about Juliet when he sees her at the ball. "See how she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear." (Music starts.) All right! Let's go roll in some tackle boxes!! TO CATCH A KING I WENT...
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Return to the Forbidden Planet

Bob Carlton - 1998 - 76 pages
...word. (PROSPERO takes TEMPEST aside.) COOKIE. Oh 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 Did my heart live 'til now, forswear it sight For I ne'er saw true beauty 'til tonight....
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...our dancing days. 10470 Romeo and Juliet O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright. It seems she lius Caesar He was my friend, faithful and just to me Ethlop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. 10471 Romeo and Juliet My only love sprung...
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Playing Juliet/Casting Othello: Two Plays

Caleen Sinnette Jennings - 1999 - 104 pages
...do you always struggle with those lines? CHRIS. What lines? GEORGIA (quoting Romeo). "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!" CHRIS. I struggle with all my lines. My...
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Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination

Adam Lively - 2000 - 306 pages
...In Romeo and Juliet Act I scene 5 Shakespeare gives this association a romantic sheen: It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. Edmund Burke, in his A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of 17 Our Ideas of the Sublime...
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Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

John Green, Paul Negri - 2000 - 68 pages
...knight? SERVANT. I know not, sir. ROMEO. 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,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,...
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