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Preface to Shakespeare

by Samuel Johnson

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Romeo and Juliet

Act I Scene II. (I. I. 181 Foll.)

Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! &c.

Of these lines neither the sense nor occasion is very evident. He is not yet in love with an enemy, and to love one and hate another is no such uncommon state, as can deserve all this toil of antithesis.

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