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... damned in a fair wife , 3 1 Bombast circumstance . ] Circumstance means circumlocution ; a round - about way of speaking : a meaning very common in Shak- speare . So in the Merchant of Venice , i . 1 , ' To wind about my love with ...
... damned in a fair wife , 3 1 Bombast circumstance . ] Circumstance means circumlocution ; a round - about way of speaking : a meaning very common in Shak- speare . So in the Merchant of Venice , i . 1 , ' To wind about my love with ...
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... Damned . ] So in As You Like It , v . 2 , ' A magician most pro- found in his art , and yet not damned . 2 Darlings . ] This word is a corruption of dearlings , which , indeed , is the reading of the folio . 8 To fear , & c . ] The ...
... Damned . ] So in As You Like It , v . 2 , ' A magician most pro- found in his art , and yet not damned . 2 Darlings . ] This word is a corruption of dearlings , which , indeed , is the reading of the folio . 8 To fear , & c . ] The ...
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... damned minutes tells he o'er , Who dotes , yet doubts ; suspects , yet strongly loves ! Oth . O , misery ! 1 ' T is something , nothing . ] It is a something that forms no part of a man's true worth or riches . — A something - nothing ...
... damned minutes tells he o'er , Who dotes , yet doubts ; suspects , yet strongly loves ! Oth . O , misery ! 1 ' T is something , nothing . ] It is a something that forms no part of a man's true worth or riches . — A something - nothing ...
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... , ' Upon whose property and most dear life a damned defeat was made . ' 8 It does abhor me , & c . ] I do abhor myself now that I have said it . Addition . ] Title . The messengers of Venice stay the meat . Go in 114 ACT IV . OTHELLO .
... , ' Upon whose property and most dear life a damned defeat was made . ' 8 It does abhor me , & c . ] I do abhor myself now that I have said it . Addition . ] Title . The messengers of Venice stay the meat . Go in 114 ACT IV . OTHELLO .
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... damned lie ; Upon my soul , a lie ; a wicked lie ! — She false with Cassio ! —did you say with Cassio ? Iago . With Cassio , mistress . tongue.1 Go to , charm your Emil . I will not charm my tongue ; I am bound to speak : My mistress ...
... damned lie ; Upon my soul , a lie ; a wicked lie ! — She false with Cassio ! —did you say with Cassio ? Iago . With Cassio , mistress . tongue.1 Go to , charm your Emil . I will not charm my tongue ; I am bound to speak : My mistress ...
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bear beseech Bian Bianca blood Boötes Brabantio called captain Cinthio's confess cuckold Cyprus damned dear devil dost thou doth Duke Editor's Hamlet Emil EMILIA ensign Enter OTHELLO Exeunt Exit Exsufflicate eyes fair faith false farewell favour fear folio fool fortune foul Gent give handkerchief hath hear heart heaven hell Henry IV hither honest honour husband jealous Julius Cæsar killed King Lear kiss knave lady lieutenant LODOVICO look lord Macbeth madam married means Merchant of Venice Michael Cassio mistress MONTANO Moor Moor's murder ne'er never night noble patience Pontic Sea pray Prithee Roderigo SCENE Sea of Marmora Shakspeare signior soul speak sweet sword tell thee thing thou art thou dost thou hast thought to-night true Turk valiant Venetian villain villany whore wife willow word
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Page 33 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions; but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.
Page 60 - 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 61 - O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.
Page 142 - 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. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well...
Page 23 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Page 76 - To show the love and duty that I bear you With franker spirit : therefore, as I am bound, Receive it from me : — I speak not yet of proof. Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio; Wear your eye thus, not jealous, nor secure : I would not have your free and noble nature, Out of self-bounty, be abused ; look to 't : I know our country disposition well ; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience Is not to leave undone, but keep unknown.
Page 26 - twas wondrous pitiful. She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page 81 - 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 60 - O thou invisible spirit of wine ! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Page 83 - By the world, I think my wife be honest, and think she is not ; I think that thou art just, and think thou art not : I'll have some proof: her name, that was as fresh As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black As mine own face.