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The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, Ed. With Notes by R. Mongan
The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice Ed With Notes by R Mongan Author:William Shakespeare General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Dr. Adams, in his English Language, gives the following account of the word : -- "It exhibits three stages of development : (1) when it served for both masculine and neuter; (2) a period of uncertainty, when we find his, her, it, and very rarely its: " It carryeth a sting in the top of her neck" (Top- selt); " It knighthood and '/ friends " (Ben Jonson); and (3) when it received the ordinary genitive suffix s. In the authorized version of the Bible, the place of its is supplied by his, her, or thereof." We may add that Archbishop Trench is not quite correct in stating that its occurs only three times throughout Shakespeare's works. The word is found three times in Winter's Tale, and once in Measure for Measure, i. 2. 4, where it is emphatic. We find its also in Lear, iv. 2. 32. It occurs at least twice in Milton : -- " The mind is its own place, and of itself Can make a heav'n of earth, a hell of heaven." Paradise Lost, Bk. i. 254. " For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper, but returns Of force to its own likeness." -- Ib. Bk. iv. 813. 50. Straight. Immediately. 55. A horned man. That is, "a cuckold." 57. Civil. Here means " civilized." 61. TTnproper. Not reserved for one person only. 62. Peculiar. Exclusively their own. 63. The spite. The malice. 64. Secure. Free from anxiety or suspicion. Taken in its original sense ; from the Latin securus, " free from care." Ib. lip. Kiss. Compare Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 5. 30. 68. In a patient list. Within the limits of patience. The lists were the boundary of the tilting-ground. 71. Shifted him away. Endeavoured to get rid of...« less