 | Thomas W. Handford - 1881 - 438 pages
...loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. On this hint I spake, She loved me for the dangers I had passed ; And I loved her that she did pity them. This is the only witchcraft which I've used. SHAKSPEARE THE JACKDAW OF RHEIMS. The Jackdaw sat... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake : She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used. Ibid I do perceive here a divided duty. Ibid. The robbed... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1857 - 494 pages
...loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. On this hint I spake ; She loved me for the dangers I had passed ; And I loved her, that she did pity them. This is the only witchcraft which I 've used. SHAKSPEARB CLXIII.— HOTSPUR'S DESCRIPTION OF... | |
 | Sara Ruddick - 1995 - 324 pages
...a testament to courage. A man makes war partly for the woman whom he protects, who is his audience. "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them."6 Her admiring tears make his fighting possible; her danger from his enemy makes his fighting... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 324 pages
...loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her, that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used. Here comes the lady: let her witness it. Enter Desdemona,... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 1997 - 260 pages
...his explanation of how he came to care for Desdemona is ominously expressed in terms of hero worship: She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. (i. iii. 166-7) This is not at all how Desdemona sees their relationship; she 'saw Othello's... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - 2014 - 330 pages
...her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, 185 And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her, that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used. Here comes the lady. Let her witness it. [Enter Desdemona,... | |
 | Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger - 1997 - 316 pages
...voluntary. Unfortunately, Othello forgets that Desdemona loves him less for any self-sufficient virtues than "for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them" (1.3.166-7). Her pity is roused by his having been "taken by the insolent foe / And sold to slavery"... | |
 | Jeannette Haien - 2009 - 452 pages
...she did; exactly: "I love you." My story being done She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: . . . She loved me for the dangers I had passed And I loved her that she did pity them. His tears almost blinded him. He slowed the car. They were at that point in the trip where the... | |
 | Lynne Magnusson - 1999 - 235 pages
...here. Consider, for example, Othello's embedded narrative of the courtship as "mutual" recognition: "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them" (166-67). What could better exemplify the standard cliches about male and female roles in cross-sex... | |
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And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. 
