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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

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alwaysiambic: Juliet by Thomas Francis “Frank” Dicksee (1877) “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope’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 shows.The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo and Juliet (Act I, scene v)

alwaysiambic:

Juliet by Thomas Francis “Frank” Dicksee (1877)


“O, she doth 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!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

Romeo and Juliet (Act I, scene v)

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snowce: Thomas Francis Dicksee, Juliet (Note: Dicksee, British, 1819-1895, was a portrait, historical and genre painter with many subjects from Shakespeare. This completely engaging oil on canvas portrait of Juliet was inspired by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.   The painting is housed in the Sunderland Art Gallery in Sunderland, England. — A Thousand Winds)

snowce:

Thomas Francis Dicksee, Juliet

(Note: Dicksee, British, 1819-1895, was a portrait, historical and genre painter with many subjects from Shakespeare. This completely engaging oil on canvas portrait of Juliet was inspired by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

  The painting is housed in the Sunderland Art Gallery in Sunderland, England. — A Thousand Winds)

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