 | Claire McEachern - Drama - 2002 - 310 pages
...(4.1.264-5). Yet, at the start of Act 5, in conversation with the spirit Ariel, Prospero declares, 'The rarer action is in virtue, than in vengeance....drift of my purpose doth extend / Not a frown further' (5.1.27-9). He moves the story from tragedy to comedy, from a story of death to a story of marriage,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 236 pages
...Tempest, includes much that is self-descriptive ('Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, / Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury...The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance . . .' ([v, i, 25—8]). In any case there seems to me little question that it was in the Henry IV... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...Outrun the pauser, reason. Macbeth — Macbeth II. Hi Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do...part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. Prospero — Tempest Vi Let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb... | |
 | Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...understandable) bitterness and anger — and succeeding: Though with their high wrongs I am strook to th' quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury...part. The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. (5.1.25-28) But there is no indication that he is struggling to overcome incestuous desire for his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Fiction - 2002 - 280 pages
...Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer action is 35 In virtue than in vengeance. They being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a... | |
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gainst my fury Do I take part. The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. They being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. 
