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Page 264
The first copy reads - enscerped , of which every reader may make what he
pleases . Perhaps escerped was an old English word bor As having sense of
beauty , do omit Their mortal 264 OTHELLO , Cas. He has had most favourable
and ...
The first copy reads - enscerped , of which every reader may make what he
pleases . Perhaps escerped was an old English word bor As having sense of
beauty , do omit Their mortal 264 OTHELLO , Cas. He has had most favourable
and ...
Page 360
Othello says , Nature could not invest herself in such shadowing passion without
instruction . It is not words that shake me thus . This passion , which spreads its
clouds over me , is the effect of some agency more than the operation of words ; it
...
Othello says , Nature could not invest herself in such shadowing passion without
instruction . It is not words that shake me thus . This passion , which spreads its
clouds over me , is the effect of some agency more than the operation of words ; it
...
Page 371
7 8 sentence ) may be an indignant sentiment of Othello : - “ I have an officer here
placed over my head ; I am now under the command of another : " i . e . of Cassio
, to whom the government of Cyprus was just transferred . Steevens . Cassio ...
7 8 sentence ) may be an indignant sentiment of Othello : - “ I have an officer here
placed over my head ; I am now under the command of another : " i . e . of Cassio
, to whom the government of Cyprus was just transferred . Steevens . Cassio ...
Page 413
On Othello's wedding night he and Cassio embarked from Ve . nice , where
Desdemona was left under the care of lago . ... Iago had not then infused any
jealousy into Othello's mind , nor did he suspect any former intimacy between
Cassio ...
On Othello's wedding night he and Cassio embarked from Ve . nice , where
Desdemona was left under the care of lago . ... Iago had not then infused any
jealousy into Othello's mind , nor did he suspect any former intimacy between
Cassio ...
Page 422
What can be more parallel in circumstance , than the conduct of Kerod and
Othello ? Nor was the story so little obvious as Mr. Pope seems to imagine : for ,
in the year 1613 , the Lady Elizabeth Carew published a tragedy called MARIAM
, the ...
What can be more parallel in circumstance , than the conduct of Kerod and
Othello ? Nor was the story so little obvious as Mr. Pope seems to imagine : for ,
in the year 1613 , the Lady Elizabeth Carew published a tragedy called MARIAM
, the ...
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