Troilus and Cressida. OthelloPrinted for, and under the direction of, John Bell, 1788 |
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... Iago , silent in his resentment , subtle in his designs , and studious at once of his intereft and his vengeance ; the soft simplicity of Desde- mona , confident of merit , and conscious of innocence , her artless perseverance in her ...
... Iago , silent in his resentment , subtle in his designs , and studious at once of his intereft and his vengeance ; the soft simplicity of Desde- mona , confident of merit , and conscious of innocence , her artless perseverance in her ...
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... Iago is so conducted , that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised . Even the inferior characters of this play would be very con- spicuous in any other piece , not only for their justness , but their strength . Cassio ...
... Iago is so conducted , that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised . Even the inferior characters of this play would be very con- spicuous in any other piece , not only for their justness , but their strength . Cassio ...
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... IAGO , his Ancient . RODERIGO , a Venetian Gentleman . MONTANO , the Moor's Predecessor in the Government of Cyprus . Clown , Servant to the Moor . Herald , WOMEN . DESDEMONA , Daughter to Brabantio , and Wife to Othello . EMILIA , Wife ...
... IAGO , his Ancient . RODERIGO , a Venetian Gentleman . MONTANO , the Moor's Predecessor in the Government of Cyprus . Clown , Servant to the Moor . Herald , WOMEN . DESDEMONA , Daughter to Brabantio , and Wife to Othello . EMILIA , Wife ...
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... IAGO . Roderigo . NEVER tell me , I take it much unkindly , That thou , Iago , -who hast had my purse , As if the strings were thine , -shouldst know of this , Iago . But you'll not hear me : If ever I did dream of such a matter , abhor ...
... IAGO . Roderigo . NEVER tell me , I take it much unkindly , That thou , Iago , -who hast had my purse , As if the strings were thine , -shouldst know of this , Iago . But you'll not hear me : If ever I did dream of such a matter , abhor ...
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... Iago : In following him , I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge , not I for love and duty , But seeming so , for my peculiar end : 60 For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment ...
... Iago : In following him , I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge , not I for love and duty , But seeming so , for my peculiar end : 60 For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment ...
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Achilles Æmilia Æneas Agamemnon Ajax ancient Antenor Ben Jonson blood Brabantio Calchas called Cassio Cressida Cyprus dear Deiphobus Desdemona devil Diomed dost doth Duke Emil Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair Farewel fear folio reads fool give Grecian Greeks hand handkerchief Hanmer hast hath heart heaven Hect Hector Helen HENLEY honest honour Iago jealousy JOHNSON kiss lady lago look lord MALONE meaning Menelaus Michael Cassio mistress MONCK MASON Moor Neoptolemus Nest Nestor never night noble o'er Othello Pandarus Paris passage Patr Patroclus play POPE pr'ythee pray Priam prince quarto reads Roderigo SCENE seems sense Shakspere Shakspere's shew signifies soul speak speech stand STEEVENS sweet sword tell thee THEOBALD Ther Thersites thing thou art thought to-night Troi Troilus Troilus and Cressida Trojan true Ulyss Venice villain WARBURTON what's whore wife word
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Page 29 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Page 24 - Took once a pliant hour ; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 140 - 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...
Page 28 - And therefore is the glorious planet, Sol, In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other ; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad...
Page 21 - My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 45 - tis apt, and of great credit: The Moor — howbeit that I endure him not — Is of a constant, loving, noble nature ; And, I dare think, he'll prove to Desdemona A most dear husband. Now I do love her too ; Not out of absolute lust, (though, peradventure, I stand accountant for as great a sin...
Page 23 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 23 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 80 - 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 begrim'd and black As mine own face.
Page 58 - I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. — O that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.