The Retrospective Review, Volume 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... Othello . After a slight sketch of the plot , he proceeds at once to speak of the moral , which he seems to regard as of the first importance in tragedy . " Whatever rubs or difficulty may stick on the bark , the moral use of this fable ...
... Othello . After a slight sketch of the plot , he proceeds at once to speak of the moral , which he seems to regard as of the first importance in tragedy . " Whatever rubs or difficulty may stick on the bark , the moral use of this fable ...
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... Othello's colour in his mind , a spectator can scarcely avoid losing the mind in the colour . But Mr. Rymer proceeds thus to characterize Othello's noble account to the Senate of his whole course of love . " This was the charm , this ...
... Othello's colour in his mind , a spectator can scarcely avoid losing the mind in the colour . But Mr. Rymer proceeds thus to characterize Othello's noble account to the Senate of his whole course of love . " This was the charm , this ...
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... Othello , our critic weightily reprehends the sudden and startling manner in which lago and Roderigo inform Brabantio of his daughter's elopement with the Moor . He regards their abruptness as an unpardonable violation of decorum , and ...
... Othello , our critic weightily reprehends the sudden and startling manner in which lago and Roderigo inform Brabantio of his daughter's elopement with the Moor . He regards their abruptness as an unpardonable violation of decorum , and ...
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... Othello's defence to the senate ; expresses his disgust at the " eloquence which kept them up all night , " and his amaze at their apathy , notwithstanding the strangeness of the marriage . He com- plains , that " Instead of starting at ...
... Othello's defence to the senate ; expresses his disgust at the " eloquence which kept them up all night , " and his amaze at their apathy , notwithstanding the strangeness of the marriage . He com- plains , that " Instead of starting at ...
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... Othello's jealousy . " Iago can now , ( he observes ) only actum agere , and vex the audience with a nauseous repeti- tion . " This remark introduces the following criticism on the celebrated scene in the third act , between Othello and ...
... Othello's jealousy . " Iago can now , ( he observes ) only actum agere , and vex the audience with a nauseous repeti- tion . " This remark introduces the following criticism on the celebrated scene in the third act , between Othello and ...
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Página 74 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 90 - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
Página 312 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 90 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Página 136 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 93 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Página 93 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Página 18 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Página 90 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Página 91 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious.