| Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...death, /And let the labouríng bark climb hillsof seas, / Olympus-high, and duckagainas low/Ashell's from heaven. If it were now to die / Twere now to...another comfort like to this / Succeeds in unknown fate. / Desdemona. The heavens forbid / But that our loves and comforts should increase / Even as our days... | |
| Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...feels that he has achieved a climax of happiness that it seems impossible he can ever reach again: ... If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate, (ni) But at the same time. Othello's ancient, or ensign, lago, is still covertly spinning the web that... | |
| Pilar Hidalgo - Feminist literatuurkritiek - 2001 - 168 pages
...wedding day in Venice. For Neely, Othello's words show his preference for an unconsummated courtship: If it were now to die, Twere now to be most happy,...another comfort, like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (2.l.l89,93) Desdemona's reply, on the other hand, lays the emphasis on quotidian joys: The heavens... | |
| Nick Potter, Nicholas Potter - Drama - 2000 - 198 pages
...expressions of intense feeling which ever since have been taken as the absolute expression, like or or If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy;...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate [II, i, 187-91], If she be false, O then Heaven mocks itself. I'll not believe it [III, iii, 282-3];... | |
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