| Irina Giertz - 2007 - 57 sidor
...pun, one of the meanings does not actually fit syntactically in the phrase, as when Mercutio says: Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. (Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, lll.i.91-92)21 Although only one meaning of 'grave' is appropriate here,... | |
| Jack Richardson - 2009 - 194 sidor
...extensively, for serious and comic purposes; in Romeo and Juliet (III.i.101), the dying Mercutio puns, 'Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man'. Puns have serious literary uses, but since the eighteenth century, puns have been used almost purely... | |
| George Herbert - 2007 - 47 sidor
...Church-monuments. Compare the pun in the dying Mercutio's line in Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet III ii 95-6: Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.' 5. checker d: Having a pattern of various colours in geometrical arrangement (OED 1). 6. See Texts... | |
| Patrick Cheney - 2007
...Accordingly, in Romeo and Juliet the devil-may-care jocular Mercutio dies making an off-hand jest: 'Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man' (3.1.89-90). When Othello makes his final declaration of love for the wife he has killed, and takes... | |
| Antonio Sk?rmeta - 2008 - 132 sidor
...fell from the poet's forehead onto his eyelids. "Is it really serious, Don Pablo?" as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." "Please, lie down." "Help me get over to the window." "I can't. Matilde let me come in here, but .... | |
| Louisa May Alcott, Kate Cumming - 2008 - 252 sidor
...such a little wound to kill me." Merry Mercutio's dying words glanced through my memory as he spoke: "'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough." And John would have said the same could he have seen the ominous black... | |
| Penny Gay - 2008
...way from Petrarchan cliches to something real and dangerous. Mercutio dies with a quip on his lips - 'Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man' (3.1.89-90) - and from that moment onwards, the play 'gallop [s] apace' (3.2.1) towards its tragic... | |
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