This line from Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" suggests that some things, such as beauty, are so exceptional that they are beyond earthly worth or comprehension. The beauty is so magnificent that it seems almost wasteful or unattainable in our worldly existence.
it means the animals here are rich and rare
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
you are trying to say two words in a sentence I can see that. well first we gotta define where are those words I mean what are these words, is it (1)WHAT IS THE MEANING OF & (2) BEAUTY RICH AND RARE ? cause if that's the case then your question would be what is the meaning of beauty rich and rare? and the answer is one who naturally born an ongoing invention of beauty on her or himself especially rare beauties that will cause your tongue to be dripping because of its one of a kind
One example of hyperbole in Romeo and Juliet Act 1 is when Romeo describes Rosaline's beauty as "bright smoke" and her rejection as "hanging in the stars." These exaggerated statements convey the intensity of Romeo's feelings of love and heartbreak.
Shakespeare doesn't say this; Romeo does. Romeo has just spotted the most gorgeous girl he has ever seen at a party. It is, of course, Juliet. He is trying to describe just how beautiful she is. You know how sometimes someone decorates a cake so beautifully that you don't want to wreck it by cutting it? That cake has a beauty too rich for use; it is so lovely you just want to stare at it, because using it would make it less beautiful. Romeo feels the same way about Juliet, that she is too good to be treated like any ordinary girl. He says also that she is too valuable ("dear") to be on the earth; she should be in heaven or something.
In Act 1 Scene 5 (when they meet briefly for the first time) Romeo describes Juliet as teaching the torches to burn bright, 'as a rich jewel', "Beauty too rich for use', as a 'snowy dove trooping with crows' and a 'Holy shrine'. The exact words he uses are "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop'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."
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In Act 1 Scene 5 (when they meet briefly for the first time) Romeo describes Juliet as teaching the torches to burn bright, 'as a rich jewel', "Beauty too rich for use', as a 'snowy dove trooping with crows' and a 'Holy shrine'. The exact words he uses are "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop'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."
It means the friendship and a rich girl and it also mean beauty. That's what i think and btw i am Maheen Kamran from O.S.G and rm 4
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When he first sees her he compares her to burning torches, a jewel and a dove as in the extract: O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop'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. Later, when hiding in her garden, he compares her to the sun as in: But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!-
got it from its beauty and rich history