...self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. Rom. If my heart's dear love— Jul. Well, do not swear : although I joy in thee, I have...joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say—It lightens....

...necessity grow out of arbitrary institutions. Bring mankind to a level. How like would it prove to " the lightning, which doth cease to be, ere one can say, It lightens !" Circumstances under the whole surface forcing up some, and sinking others, in every quarter ! Why,...

...class belongs the following exquisite passage, which presents a succession of beautiful images: — Although I joy in thee I have no joy of this contract te -night: It is too rash, too nnad\ie'd, too «uddcn ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to...

...are crowded one upon another ; thus in the balcony scene — I have no joy of this contract to night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like...which doth cease to be Ere one can say it lightens. This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. Again,...

...admirers, like a star which falls, the more dazzling and bright because it is never to rise again : " Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — it lightens." For the true estimation of such a person, both as an author and a man, his history, from first to last,...

...his love, even in the full swell of her awakened affections, cannot avoid remarking that his contract is " Too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which does cease to be Ere one can say, It lightens." When he urges his marriage on the friar, " Rom. O let...

...self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I 'll believe thee. Rom. If my true heart's love — Jul. Well, do not swear ; although I joy in thee, I have...cease to be, Ere one can say — it lightens. Sweet, good night I This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next...

...self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. Rom. If my heart's dear love — Jul. Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have...cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.* Sweet, good night! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we...

...self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee. Rom. If my heart's dear love — Jul. Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have...lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.9 Sweet, good night ! This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous...

...can detect running through the playful badinage of the loving couple, a tinge of dark foreboding. " Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract...to-night. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden." A cold blast, as it were, of the storm which is so soon to burst upon the fortunes of the happy lovers....