Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of VeniceHarper & brothers, 1879 - 214 pages |
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1st folio 1st quarto 3d quartos Anthropophagi beseech Bianca blood Brabantio Cassio chidden Clarke Clown Coll Cymb Cyprus demona Desdemona devil doth Duke early eds edition Emilia Enter OTHELLO Exeunt Exit eyes faith false Famagusta farewell favour fear folio reading fool foul gentle Gentleman give Gratiano handkerchief hath heart heaven honest honour husband Iago Iago's jealous jealousy Johnson Julius Cæsar knave lady later folios Lear lieutenant Lodovico look lord lov'd Lover's Complaint Macb Macbeth Malone Mariamne married Merchant of Venice Michael Cassio mistress Montano Moor murther nature never night noble passion play pray Prithee quarto reading Rich Roderigo Rolfe Rolfe's SCENE Schmidt Senator sense Shakespeare Signior Sonn soul speak speech Steevens quotes sweet Temp thee thing thou art thou dost thought to-night Venetian Venice villain villany Warb wife willow woman word Zounds
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Page 52 - 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, Whereof by parcels...
Page 97 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Page 51 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak ; — such was the process \— And of the cannibals that each other eat. The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 120 - Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : — But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 148 - When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Page 45 - Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her; For I'll refer me to all things of sense, If she in chains of magic were not bound, Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy, So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, Would ever have, to incur a general mock, Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom 70 Of such a thing as thou — to fear, not to delight.
Page 57 - 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 sterile with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 32 - 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 96 - 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 This may do something.
Page 91 - 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.