 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - Canon (Literature). - 1996 - 356 pages
...pointing out that perhaps his mind will change. OTHELLO Never. lago. Like to the Pontic sea. Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring...marble heaven. In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. (IIL3.450-59) It is. I think. easy enough to work out the meaning of the words... | |
 | Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...lago: Patience I say, your mind perhaps may change. Othello: Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current, and compulsive course, Ne'er feels retiring...marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow, I here engage my words. lago: Do not rise yet. /lago kneels/ Witness, you ever-burning lights above.... | |
 | John Seely, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...blood! 440 450 Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change. Never lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring...marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. [Kneels Do not rise yet. [Kneels 460 Witness you ever-burning lights above,... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Tragedy - 2001 - 426 pages
...concrete, detached; seen but not apprehended. We meet the same effect in: Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring...that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. Now, byyond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. (in. iii.454) This... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 228 pages
...forecast of revenge, but how different in its movement from Othello's: Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring...Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. (3.3.457-64) The Othello actor must start out his passage with a desire for revenge large enough to... | |
 | John Pemble - Performing Arts - 2005 - 271 pages
...one [line] into the other, and seldom closing with the tenth syllable': Like to the Pontic sea Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring...Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. In the classical French alexandrine the meaning is contained by the versification. It is regularly... | |
 | John Russell Brown - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...'risk'. But the jump here is miles from the swift movement of Othello's Like to the Pontic sea Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring...Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. (III.iii.457-64) In the speech just quoted, the relation of the similar parts allows us to feel word... | |
 | Syd Pritchard - Golf - 2005 - 149 pages
...their mark on him [Richard III I iii 335] So, keep your eye on the ball! Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring...Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. [Othello III iii 456] A charitable afterthought Love thyself last, Cherish those hearts that hate thee.... | |
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Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love.... 
