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... fair and virtuous , and much beloved by Disdemona , who spent much time with her . There was another of the soldiers , a captain of a troop , and he being also in great favour with the Moor , Disdemona , with her husband's approval ...
... fair and virtuous , and much beloved by Disdemona , who spent much time with her . There was another of the soldiers , a captain of a troop , and he being also in great favour with the Moor , Disdemona , with her husband's approval ...
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... 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 circumstance ...
... 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 circumstance ...
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... fair title of office so related to the Moor as should dispose me to love him . C 2 Knave . ] Servant . So in Julius Cæsar , iv . 3 , Brutus says to his servant , Gentle knave , good night . ' The word is of Anglo- Saxon origin , and ...
... fair title of office so related to the Moor as should dispose me to love him . C 2 Knave . ] Servant . So in Julius Cæsar , iv . 3 , Brutus says to his servant , Gentle knave , good night . ' The word is of Anglo- Saxon origin , and ...
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... fair daughter , At this odd - even and dull watch o ' the night , Transported , with no worse nor better guard But with a knave of common hire , a gondolier , To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor : - If this be known to you , and ...
... fair daughter , At this odd - even and dull watch o ' the night , Transported , with no worse nor better guard But with a knave of common hire , a gondolier , To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor : - If this be known to you , and ...
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... fair , and happy , So opposite to marriage that she shunned The wealthy curled darlings ' of our nation , Would ever have , to incur a general mock , Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou , -to fear , not to ...
... fair , and happy , So opposite to marriage that she shunned The wealthy curled darlings ' of our nation , Would ever have , to incur a general mock , Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou , -to fear , not to ...
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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.