 Tis not to make me jealous, To say — my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous: Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear, or doubt of her...  The stranger in France, or, A tour from Devonshire to Paris - Page 229by Sir John Carr - 1803 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 532 pages
...shall turn the business of my soul To such exsufflicate 2 and blown surmises, Matching thy inference.3 'Tis not to make me jealous. To say— my wife is...Where virtue is, these are more virtuous ; Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...turn the business of my soul To such exsufficate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'T is not to make me jealous, To say — my wife is fair,...Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...shall turn the business of my soul To such exsufflicatet and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous, To say — my wife is...dances well ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : J Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt ; For she had... | |
 | 1937 - 684 pages
...Shakespearean characters are much given to dancing. " ' 'Tis not to make me jealous,' said Othello, 'to say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well' " (iii 3, 183). "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven ... a time... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1976 - 328 pages
...shall turn the business of my soul 180 To such exsufflicate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair,...Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes, and chose... | |
 | Jane Adamson - 1980 - 316 pages
...shall turn the business of my soul To such exsufflicate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well : Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.... | |
 | Daphne Patai - 1983 - 268 pages
...narrative that Barroso uses as an epigraph. Desdemona is characterized by Othello as being a woman who is "fair, feeds well, loves company,/ Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well" (act 3, sc. 3). Maria Corina is of the same type. The very attractiveness of such women, their love... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2012 - 380 pages
...shall turn the business of my soul To such exsufflicate and blown* surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair,...company. Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well; 190 Where virtue is, these are more virtuous: 191 Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw 192 The... | |
 | Kent Cartwright - 2010 - 301 pages
...Othello, for example, defends Desdemona s behavior before lago attacks it: "Tis not to make me jealious / To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, / Is free of speech" ( 183-85). If Othello sounds prematurely defensive here, he sounds so because we hear him from far... | |
 | Hildegard Baumgart - 1990 - 380 pages
...with the reality principle: he says that there is no cause to be jealous, when everybody sees that "my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free...dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous" (3.3). Even his own deficiencies, as he attempts to convince himself, do not have to cause his anxiety:... | |
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