 | Michael J. Meyer - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 292 pages
...the house . . . and saying aloud, 'She is beneath this roof . . . and feeling as she crossed the hall "if it were now to die 'twere now to be most happy. Then, of course, the most exquisite moment of [Clarissa's] whole life. . . . Sally stopped; picked... | |
 | Hunter Tylo - Television actors and actresses - 2001 - 436 pages
...because of that night. In describing that evening's perfect happiness, he uses a line from Shakespeare's Othello, "If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy." One day, early on in our dating, we arrived back at my apartment to find a phone message from my old... | |
 | Nick Potter, Nicholas Potter - Drama - 2000 - 198 pages
...expressions of intense feeling which ever since have been taken as the absolute expression, like or or If it were now to die, '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... | |
 | Pilar Hidalgo - Feminist literatuurkritiek - 2001 - 168 pages
...wedding day in Venice. For 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 content so absolute. That not another comfort, like to this Succeeds in... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...feels that he has achieved a 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 so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Characters and characteristics in literature - 2001 - 750 pages
...let the labouríng bark climb 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 content so absolute /That not another comfort like to this / Succeeds... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...let the labouring bark climb 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 content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...the labouring bark climb 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 content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in... | |
 | Michael Neill - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 556 pages
...let the labouring bark climb 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.... 2.1.179-84 But the exhilarated poetry of the scene is undercut by the sardonic presence of lago, who... | |
 | Annamarie Jagose - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 244 pages
...critical readings: "But this young man who had killed himself — had he plunged holding his treasure? 'If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy,' she had said to herself once, coming down in white" (202-203). Clarissa's attribution of homosexual... | |
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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. 
