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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. "
The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet ... - Page 431
by William Shakespeare - 1851 - 38 pages
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 6

Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high and duck again...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...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 49

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...tempest come such calms, May the winds bellow till they have wakened death, And let the labouring barque climb hills of seas Olympus-high, and duck again as...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 do grow....
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The Shakespearian Tempest: With a Chart of Shakespeare's Dramatic Universe

G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...winds blow till they have waken'd death! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus high and duck again as low As hell's from heaven! If it...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...
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Othello: The Shakespeare Folios

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 308 pages
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 39

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 276 pages
...Cyprus and is reunited with Desdemona, 'his one desire is to hold this moment to make it eternal'.14 If it were now to die, Twere now to be most happy;...another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate. (2.1.186-90) But Othello's belief in the possibility of absolute happiness through love also reveals...
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Love's Labour's Lost: A Guide to the Play

John Pendergast - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 210 pages
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Shakespeare's Tragic Skepticism

Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...forbidden love. We must recall that Othello's anticipations of bliss had prompted thoughts of death: If it were now to die 'Twere now to be most happy;...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...
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Shakespearean Criticism

Michelle Lee - Drama - 2002 - 444 pages
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 21

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 244 pages
...scene, 11, i, where Othello voices his sense of its surpassing excellence by saying: rr. ,. ' ' ° It 1t were now to die, "Twere now to be most happy; for...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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Othello

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2002 - 324 pages
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