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" May the winds blow till they have waken'd death! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus-high and duck again as low As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute... "
The Works of William Shakespeare: Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear. Othello ... - Page 400
by William Shakespeare - 1866
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The Renascence of the English Drama: Essays, Lectures, and Fragments ...

Henry Arthur Jones - English drama - 1895 - 396 pages
...From all his swarming examples let us take two : that one on the strand of Cyprus — ' Othello. O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms,...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. And that other one, more glorious still, under the walls of Alexandria, last flickering triumph of...
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The Reader's Shakespeare: His Dramatic Work Condensed, Connected ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1896 - 486 pages
...seas Olympus•-high, and duck again as low As hell 's from heaven ! If it were 'now to die, 'T were now to be most 'happy ; for, I fear, My soul 'hath...our 'days do grow ! Oth. Amen to that, sweet Powers ! And this, and this, the greatest discords be That e'er our hearts shall make ! ["IS* lago. rAcMe.]...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...happiness ; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. t. As You Lite It. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 77. ngelic songs, m. KEBLE — The Christian Year. Sepluagesima Sunday. .. Othello. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 191. 112 CONTENT. CONTENTION. My crown is in ray heart, not on my head...
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Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots

Cyril Ransome - 1898 - 326 pages
...there is about him such a satisfaction as in Greek philosophy preluded the intervention of Nemesis. " If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate." He has reached the point where, as Bacon put it, " It is a miserable state of mind to have few things...
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My Inner Life: Being a Chapter in Personal Evolution and Autobiography

John Beattie Crozier - Philosophers - 1898 - 626 pages
...solemnity, as if in this brief life such pure and absolute peace could never again be vouchsafed him, • If it were now to die T'were now to be most happy...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. ' where the very sound and fall of the words have in them a kind of foretaste and far-off' echo of...
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Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Julius Caesar. Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare - Promptbooks - 1899 - 1144 pages
...death ! And let the labouring barque climb hills of seas Olympus-high, and duck again as low As hell 's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to...our days do grow ! Oth. Amen to that, sweet powers ! — And this, and this [kissing her], the greatest discords be That e'er our hearts shall make !...
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Othello. Richard II. Richard III. Henry VIII. Much ado about nothing ...

William Shakespeare - Promptbooks - 1899 - 542 pages
...of seas Olympus-high, and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'T were now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her...our days do grow ! Oth. Amen to that, sweet powers ! — And this, and this [kissing her], the greatest discords be That e'er our hearts shall make !...
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1899 - 440 pages
...! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus-high and duck again as low 190 As hell 's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. 166. you may relish him but is becoming in a soldier. more, etc. lago's bluntness 175. flay the sir,...
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The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1899 - 436 pages
...! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus-high and duck again as low I9o As hell 's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. 166. you may relish him but is becoming in a soldier. more, etc. lago's bluntness 175. play the sir,...
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The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy

James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...Othello the strongest evidence to support their contention that Othello has a tragic awareness of life: If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy;...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (2.1.187-91) These lines, argue Bodkinists, attest to a fatalism in Othello that rivals his belief...
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