 | John Gillies - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 312 pages
...he ritualises Pliny's account of the irresistibility of the current flowing through the Bosphorus: Like to the Pontic sea. Whose icy current and compulsive...Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. (3.3.456-63) And at the moment of his death, when vainly attempting to reconcile his innermost sense... | |
 | W. R. Owens, Lizbeth Goodman - Canon (Literature). - 1996 - 356 pages
...us in other respects too. He imagines himself in terms of vast natural forces. His revenge. he tells lago. Like to the Pontic sea. Whose icy current and...thoughts with violent pace Shall ne'er look back. (IIL3.450-5) This magnificent speech is well described when G. Wilson Knight refers to Othello's 'architectural... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 324 pages
...Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propende and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts with...wide revenge Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heayen, In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. He kneels IAGO Do not rise yet.... | |
 | Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...content. Othello: O blood, lago, blood! lago: Patience I say, your mind perhaps may change. Othello: Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current,...the due reverence of a sacred vow, I here engage my words. lago: Do not rise yet. /lago kneels/ Witness, you ever-burning lights above. You elements that... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - Drama - 2014 - 330 pages
...may change. Othello Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course 510 Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the...humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge 515 Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven: In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage... | |
 | John Seely, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 324 pages
...tongues. Yet be content. O, blood, blood, blood! 440 450 Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change. Never lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current...the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. [Kneels Do not rise yet. [Kneels 460 Witness you ever-burning lights above, You elements that... | |
 | Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...'O blood, blood, blood!' Patience, counsels lago. Never, cries Othello. Like the sea raging through the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts with violent...Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. (3.3.455, 460-3) In that torrent of blood is swallowed up Othello's very self. To physicians in their... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2001 - 424 pages
...Othello's poetry they are concrete, detached; seen but not apprehended. We meet the same effect in: Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive...the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. (in. iii.454) This is a strongly typical speech. The long comparison, explicitly made, where... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Tragedy - 2001 - 426 pages
...Othello's poetry they are concrete, detached; seen but not apprehended. We meet the same effect in: Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive...that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. Now, byyond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. (in. iii.454) This... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...Óthello. Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace / Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to lnunble love / Till that a capable and wide revenge / Swallow...the due reverence of a sacred vow / I here engage my words. / lago. Do not rise yet. lago kneeh. / Wihiess, yon ever-burning lights above, /Yon elements... | |
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Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love.... 
