"And yet there are sadder things in life than that," returned the other. "Short as our time is, there is no man, whether it be here
among this multitude or elsewhere, who is so happy, as not to have
felt the wish I will not say once, but full many a time-that he were
dead rather than alive. Calamities fall upon us; sicknesses vex and
harass us, and make life, short though it be, to appear long. So
death, through the wretchedness of our life, is a most sweet refuge
to our race: and God, who gives us the tastes that we enjoy of
pleasant times, is seen, in his very gift, to be envious.”

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In twelve years a slave, northup realizes he cannot trust anyone after his kidnapping except hamilton and brown god the physician the women who gave him drink

Read the excerpt from act iv, scene iv of romeo and juliet. capulet: good faith! ’tis day: the county will be here with music straight, for so he said he would. [music within.] i hear him near. nurse! wife! what, no! what, nurse, i say! 30 re-enter nurse. go waken juliet, go and trim her up; i’ll go and chat with paris. hie, make haste, make haste; the bridegroom he is come already: make haste, i say. [exeunt.] 35 this scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that the musicians will not arrive on time. capulet approves of the match to paris. romeo is already married to juliet. the nurse will be unable to rouse juliet.