Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...Joel Elias Spingarn Clarendon Press, 1908 - Criticism |
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... and Feats of War , makes Desdemona , a 30 Senators Daughter , to be in love with him , and to be married to him without her Parents knowledge ; And having preferred Cassio to be his Lieutenant , a place which his 220 Thomas Rymer.
... and Feats of War , makes Desdemona , a 30 Senators Daughter , to be in love with him , and to be married to him without her Parents knowledge ; And having preferred Cassio to be his Lieutenant , a place which his 220 Thomas Rymer.
Page 221
... Cassio Cuckolds him , -which he effects by stealing and con- veying a certain Handkerchief which had at the Wedding been 5 by the Moor presented to his Bride . Hereupon Othello and Jago plot the Deaths of Desdemona and Cassio . Othello ...
... Cassio Cuckolds him , -which he effects by stealing and con- veying a certain Handkerchief which had at the Wedding been 5 by the Moor presented to his Bride . Hereupon Othello and Jago plot the Deaths of Desdemona and Cassio . Othello ...
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... Cassio ; And 20 chuses himself to murder the silly Woman his Wife , that was like to make no resistance . His Love and his Jealousie are no part of a Souldiers Character , unless for Comedy . But what is most intolerable is Jago . He is ...
... Cassio ; And 20 chuses himself to murder the silly Woman his Wife , that was like to make no resistance . His Love and his Jealousie are no part of a Souldiers Character , unless for Comedy . But what is most intolerable is Jago . He is ...
Page 224
... Cassio . And tho ' she perceives the Moor Jealous of Cassio , yet will she not forbear , but still rings Cassio , Cassio , in both his 30 Ears . Roderigo is the Cully of Jago , brought in to be murder'd by Jago , that Jago's hands might ...
... Cassio . And tho ' she perceives the Moor Jealous of Cassio , yet will she not forbear , but still rings Cassio , Cassio , in both his 30 Ears . Roderigo is the Cully of Jago , brought in to be murder'd by Jago , that Jago's hands might ...
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... Cassio ; his first Salutation to the Governour , Montanio , is : Cas . Thanks to the valiant of this Isle , That so approve the Moor , and let the Heavens Give him defence against their Elements , For I have lost him on the dangerous ...
... Cassio ; his first Salutation to the Governour , Montanio , is : Cas . Thanks to the valiant of this Isle , That so approve the Moor , and let the Heavens Give him defence against their Elements , For I have lost him on the dangerous ...
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Page 221 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 228 - Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Page 118 - They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.
Page 334 - I'll give no more, but I'll undo The world by dying, because love dies too. Then all your beauties will be no more worth Than gold in mines, where none doth draw it forth, And all your graces no more use shall have Than a sun-dial in a grave.
Page 222 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak— such was the process; And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 80 - Age, and so much to my own prejudice in regard of those more profitable matches which I might have made among the richer Sciences. As for the Portion which this brings of Fame, it is an Estate (if it be any...
Page 95 - Actor still, never falling in his Part when he had done speaking, but with his looks and gesture maintaining it still unto the heighth...
Page 242 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 240 - Ay, there's the point: — As, — to be bold with you, — Not to affect many proposed matches, Of her own clime, complexion, and degree; Whereto, we see, in all things nature tends: Foh ! one may smell, in such, a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
Page 90 - Can all the Transformations of the Gods give such copious hints to flourish and expatiate on, as the true Miracles of Christ, or of his Prophets, and Apostles?