 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...Hath this extent ; no more. Rude am I in speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,...I speak, More than pertains to feats of broils and battles ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself. Yet, by your patience,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...I in my speech And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace; , For since these arms of mine hath seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have us'd Their dearest actionJ in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats... | |
 | James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...Hath this extent : no more. Kude am I in speech, And little bless1d with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years pith, Till now, some nine moons wasted, they have us1d Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1976 - 328 pages
...Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak More than... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...is 'monumental'. At the same time there is a suggestion of poetry in the way Othello sees himself: For since these arms of mine had seven years pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field. A romantic glamour is thrown over the kind of life Othello... | |
 | Jane Adamson - Drama - 1980 - 316 pages
...my speech/ And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace', he declares in soft, eloquent phrases, 'And little of this great world can I speak/ More than pertains to feats of broil and battle'. Yet what follows can be described only as a most successful 'feat' of 'speaking',... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2012 - 380 pages
...For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith. Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, 87 More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; And therefore little shall I grace my cause In... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...them" [1.3.167-68]). And as with Troilus, martial identity is defined as leaving childhood behind. "Since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, /...have us'd /Their dearest action in the tented field" (1.3.83-85), Othello tells the assembled Senate; in specifying his youth — the "seven years' pith"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 180 pages
...Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little blest with the soft phrase of peace: For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak More than... | |
 | Richard S. Hess, David Toshio Tsumura - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 502 pages
...128-33; italics mine): . . . Rude am I in my speech And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith...have us'd Their dearest action in the tented field. Her father lov'd me, oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life From year to year —... | |
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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... 
