 | 1862 - 832 ページ
...to cheat his conscience into mistaking a deed of wild vengeance for one of righteous punishment. " It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul! Let me...name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause." He will not shed her blood, nor scar her smooth white skin ; but "she must die ; else she'll betray... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1863 - 504 ページ
...blood, nor so much as ruffle her skin : Othello. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul : — Let ine not name it to you, you chaste stars ! It is the cause....I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than enow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. \Lays down t?te rwtrd. Yet she must die ; else... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 648 ページ
...[Exeunt. SCENE IL A Bedchamber : DESDEMONA in Bed asleep. A Light burning. Enter OTHELLO. Othello. IT is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me...her's than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. — Put out the light, and then. . . put out the light... | |
 | Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 ページ
...take the life of Desdemona (who is in bed sleeping), compares her to a rose he is about to pluck : — It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul (Let me...I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster : Put out the light, — and then — put out the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 416 ページ
...That either makes me or fordoes me quite. [Exeunt. SCENE II.— CYPBUS. A Bedcliamber in the Castle: DESDEMONA in bed asleep; a light burning. Enter OTHELLO....I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. [Takes off his sword. Yet she must die, else she'll... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1865 - 592 ページ
...counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! OTHELLO'S Soliloquy before /tilling DZSDEMONA. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let...not shed her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 ページ
...IRRESOLUTION TO MURDER DESDEMONA. SCENE.—A Bedchamber: Desdemona in bed, asleep. A light burning. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul— Let me...I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. [Takes off his sword. Yet she must die, else she'll... | |
 | F. R. Leavis - 1986 - 380 ページ
...felicity it is - wonderful in its felicity and like the play very painful in a very distinctive way. 'It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; / Let...name it to you, you chaste stars! / It is the cause.' The tone here is one of holy horror at the unspeakable obscenity of Desdemona's offence. The overwhelming... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - 1987 - 232 ページ
...distance. Othello OTHELLO'S FINAL SOLILOQUY V.ii.i-22 DESDEMONA in bed asleep. Enter OTHELLO, with a light. Oth. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let...I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth, as monumental alabaster: 5 Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.... | |
 | Anthony Gerard Barthelemy - 1999 - 236 ページ
...him, that distance collapses as Othello, welling with sexual desire, comments on Desdemona's beauty: It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, Let me...I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth, as monumental alabaster. (V, ii, 1-5) Othello tries our sympathies for... | |
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It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. 
