The Merchant of VeniceThe University Press, 1931 - 200 pages |
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... character : she has SO し Portia . many qualities so finely tempered together . Most people of marked individuality have the defect of their qualities : force of character easily becomes hardness ; a strong sense of justice is apt on ...
... character : she has SO し Portia . many qualities so finely tempered together . Most people of marked individuality have the defect of their qualities : force of character easily becomes hardness ; a strong sense of justice is apt on ...
Page xxix
... character , is his lack of self - assertion . He is surely too passive . In his unwillingness to spoil Bassanio's chances at Belmont or cloud his happiness , Antonio keeps silence till it is too late for Bassanio to do anything . Now ...
... character , is his lack of self - assertion . He is surely too passive . In his unwillingness to spoil Bassanio's chances at Belmont or cloud his happiness , Antonio keeps silence till it is too late for Bassanio to do anything . Now ...
Page xxxiii
... character . Feeling strongly , he is inclined to reticence . Portia , one may be sure , is a judge of character , and she soon admits Lorenzo to intimacy , nay , trust ( III . 4. 24-26 ) and confidence ( v . 119–123 ) . Launcelot ...
... character . Feeling strongly , he is inclined to reticence . Portia , one may be sure , is a judge of character , and she soon admits Lorenzo to intimacy , nay , trust ( III . 4. 24-26 ) and confidence ( v . 119–123 ) . Launcelot ...
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Ansaldo Antonio Arragon Bassanio Bellario Belmont blank verse bond Bond-story Cæsar called casket character Christian common court daughter disguise doth ducats Duke Editors quote Elizabethan English Exeunt eyes fair father feeling Folio fool fortune Furness Giannetto give Gobbo gold Gratiano hath heart hence Henry honour humour Italian Jessica Jew of Malta Jew's Julius Cæsar justice King Lear lady Launcelot literally lord Lorenzo masque means meant Merchant of Venice mercy metaphor Morocco Nerissa notion noun original Othello Padua Paradise Lost perhaps phrase play plural Portia pound of flesh pray Quarto quibbling rhyme Rialto ring Salanio Salarino Salerio SCENE seems sense Shakespeare ship Shylock soul speak speech story swear syllable Tempest thee thing thou thought three thousand ducats Trial-scene Troilus Troilus and Cressida Tubal usury Venetian verb vnto words young