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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson - Page 222
by British essayists - 1819
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Pagan Virtue: An Essay in Ethics

John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - Cardinal virtues - 1990 - 260 pages
...itself as a farewell to his ‘occupation' as a soldier: I had been happy if the general camp, Pioners, and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known: 0 now for ever Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content: Farewell the plumed troop, and the big...
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The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in ...

Evelyn Gajowski - Drama - 1992 - 172 pages
...love should take the shape of an elegy to "glorious war" and the occupation of the warrior hero: O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,...
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Othello

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 180 pages
...robbed at all. IAGO I am sorry to hear this. OTHELLO I had been happy, if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known. 0, now for ever, 350 Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content; Farewell the plumed troops and the...
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The Masks of Othello: The Search for the Identity of Othello, Iago, and ...

Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 340 pages
...speech is stripped of what again seemed too unmanly: I had been happy if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known. (401^-03) Extravagance is further muted by the deletion of the speech's great baroque ending: Farewell...
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Watching Shakespeare on Television

Herbert R. Coursen - Performing Arts - 1993 - 212 pages
...concerned, he, the absolutist, will release all his past and present in a great flood of language: O, now for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue . . . Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone! (III.3.392-402)...
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Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels

Brian Vickers - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 532 pages
.../ Chaos is come again' (3.3.9 1ff) — initiates the collapse of the public world: 0 now, for even Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That make ambition vitue! (3.3.349ff) In both worlds, ‘Othello's occupation's gone'. The...
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Four Tragedies

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 964 pages
...robbed at all. IAGO I am sorry to hear this. OTHELLO I had been happy if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Dramatists, English - 1995 - 424 pages
...sense of his own identity is symbolized in his language by his descent from the sublime eloquence of Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content, Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That makes ambition virtue! . . to the gibberish of ‘Pish! Noses, ears, and lips! Is't possible?...
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The American Literary History Reader

Gordon Hutner - American literature - 1995 - 405 pages
...mines. At the onset of his frenzy, Othello tells lago, I had been happy if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known. (IH.iii. 342-44) Something of that baseness carries over to Cooper's portrait of his garrulous, illiterate...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...sense of his own identity is symbolized in his language by his descent from the sublime eloquence of Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content, Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That makes ambition virtue! . to the gibberish of ‘Pish! Noses, ears, and lips! Is't possible?...
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