 | William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - Drama - 2014 - 330 pages
...of seas, Olympus-high, and duck again as low 205 As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die, Twere now to be most happy; for I fear My soul hath her...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. 210 Desdemona The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase, Even as our days... | |
 | Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 316 pages
...tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have wakened death, If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy; for I fear, My soul hath her...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (2.1. 176-85) Desdemona's amendment to this passionate sentiment - "The heavens forbid / But that our... | |
 | Arthur Graham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...Cyprus suggests his preference for a perpetually unconsummated courtship: If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her...another comfort, like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. In response Desdemona asserts instead quotidian joys: The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts... | |
 | Pilar Hidalgo - Feminist literatuurkritiek - 2001 - 168 pages
...Neely, Othello's words show his preference for an unconsummated courtship: If it were now to die, Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her...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... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...climax of happiness that it seems impossible he can ever reach again: ... If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy for I fear My soul hath her content...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... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...hillsof seas, / Olympus-high, and duckagainas low/Ashell's from heaven. If it were now to die / Twere now to be most happy, for I fear / My soul hath her...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... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...that Othello's anticipations of bliss had prompted thoughts of death: If it were now to die 'Twere now to be most happy; for I fear My soul hath her...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. It is one of those flights of Othello's hyperbole that suggest too much before the fact, and Desdemona... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...hills of seas Olympus high and duck again as low As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear, My soul hath her...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (ni 1 85) Notice here the 'hills of seas', and the reiterated word 'content', Shakespeare's word for... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...hills of seas, Olympus-high and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear, My soul hath her...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (n, i, 186-95) It is not an accident that, in his words to lago at the end of the play, Othello should... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...voices his sense of its surpassing excellence by saying: rr. ,. ' ' ° It 1t were now to die, "Twere now to be most happy; for I fear My soul hath her...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. The happiness is so intense as to be almost unbearable. Yet this happiness is destroyed so completely... | |
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Twere now to be most happy; for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. 
