Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of VeniceAmerican book Company, 1903 - 263 pages |
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accented Bianca blood Brabantio caitiff chidden Clarke Clown contemptuously Cymb Cyprus demona Desdemona devil dost thou doth Dowden Duke Emilia Enter OTHELLO Exeunt Exit fair faith FAMAGUSTA Farewell favour fear folio fool fortune foul Gentleman give Gratiano handkerchief Hart hath hear heart heaven hell honest honour husband Iago Iago's instance jealous jealousy Johnson kill'd kiss knave lady Lear lieutenant Lodovico look lord Lover's Complaint Macb Macbeth Malone married matter mean Michael Cassio mistress Montano Moor murther negro never night noble passage passion patience play Pontic sea pray Prithee quarto reference Rich Roderigo Saint Peter SCENE Schmidt Senator sense Shakespeare Signior Sonn soul speak speech Steevens sweet syllable Temp thee thing thou art thou dost thought to-night Venetian Venice verb verse villain villany wife willow woman word Zounds
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Page 30 - I shall promulgate, — I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege; and my demerits May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune As this that I have reach'd : for know, lago, But that I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumscription and confine For the sea's worth.
Page 95 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it : trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Page 74 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Page 46 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 73 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound ; there is more offence in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition ; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving : you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
Page 158 - No more of that : — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 88 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Page 48 - Thus do I ever make my fool my purse ; For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane, If I would time expend with such a snipe, But for my sport and profit.
Page 144 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 39 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse : Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour ; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...