Shakespeare Commentaries, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1863 |
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Page 52
... nature was to be displayed . But this task he has in such a manner discharged , that the play of Othello must on ... natural disposition , a stranger in the state which we see him serving , although he has become a christian and a ...
... nature was to be displayed . But this task he has in such a manner discharged , that the play of Othello must on ... natural disposition , a stranger in the state which we see him serving , although he has become a christian and a ...
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... nature would not have felt easy by the side of a woman of this nature . This genuine manliness is only attracted by the most genuine womanliness , and this again Othello would have found belonging rather to the feeling , than to the ...
... nature would not have felt easy by the side of a woman of this nature . This genuine manliness is only attracted by the most genuine womanliness , and this again Othello would have found belonging rather to the feeling , than to the ...
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... nature prevailed over her , who was of a less sensual nature . She " saw his visage in his mind " , her love was not the fruit of a fleeting ebullition of passion , but the slowly ripened admiration of his valour and manly power ; she ...
... nature prevailed over her , who was of a less sensual nature . She " saw his visage in his mind " , her love was not the fruit of a fleeting ebullition of passion , but the slowly ripened admiration of his valour and manly power ; she ...
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... natural , and whether any trace , however slight , is to be discovered of any element of good mixed with that of ... nature , namely by his superstition and the invo- luntary paroxysms of conscience . Not even this little has he left ...
... natural , and whether any trace , however slight , is to be discovered of any element of good mixed with that of ... nature , namely by his superstition and the invo- luntary paroxysms of conscience . Not even this little has he left ...
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... nature of this villain is to be sought . There Iago , in a kind of enthusiastic self - contentment with his " divinity of hell " , asks , who would now call him a villain ? — him , who had given his friend Cassio indeed the sincerest ...
... nature of this villain is to be sought . There Iago , in a kind of enthusiastic self - contentment with his " divinity of hell " , asks , who would now call him a villain ? — him , who had given his friend Cassio indeed the sincerest ...
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Page 296 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 64 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 6 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Page 365 - Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, But bid farewell, and go : when you sued staying Then was the time for words ; no going then : Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows...
Page 295 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Page 639 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Page 347 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 341 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 328 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 140 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I have bad dreams.