 | John Amory Lowell - 1848 - 234 pàgines
...into the question of Mr. Boott's sanity. To Mr. Brooks it seemed a very suspicious circumstance ; for "trifles, light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." My motives for withholding the letter were twofold. I entertained at that moment sincere hopes, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 180 pàgines
...acknown on't; I have use for it. 3,3 I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. This may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison:95 Dangerous conceits are in their natures... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alan Durband - 2014 - 330 pàgines
...it. Go, leave me. [Exit Emilia] 365 I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. This may do something. The Moor already changes with my poison. 370 Dangerous conceits are in their... | |
 | Stephen Bretzius - 1997 - 180 pàgines
...relation between representation and belief, which on second thought seems rather commonplace, when he says "Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of Holy Writ." The equation of jealousy and devotion reminds us that both involve submissions of faith to a particular... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pàgines
...which in its insubstantiality becomes a symbol of the vulnerability of his love to lago's machinations: 'Trifles light as air | Are to the jealous confirmations strong | As proofs of holy writ' (3.3.326-8). A crucial way in which Othello is exceptional among Shakespeare's tragedies is the presence... | |
 | Megan Tresidder - 1997 - 186 pàgines
...insecurity. lrrational jealousy can create its own certatnttes. as lago is well awarec "Trifles ltght as air are to the jealous / Confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ." Using no more than a stolen handkerchief and a few misconstrued conversations. he cynically mantpulates... | |
 | Eliza Fenwick - 1998 - 388 pàgines
...and then age will come, and gout, and bile, and ill tempers, and no sweet remembrances of lago says: "trifles light as air/ Are to the jealous, confirmations strong/ As proofs of holy writ" (Othello, III.iii.327-9). You perceive plainly, don't you, Walter, that I have no alternative but taking... | |
 | Gilbert Imlay - 1998 - 372 pàgines
...I passed a most unpleasant afternoon.— It was late before we retired to Lady B 's dressing-room, "Trifles light as air Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." 4 And as she was much struck with the idea, she appealed to my Lord, to know, if he did not think in... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 284 pàgines
...assimilates it to his latent design: I will in Cassio's lodging lose mis napkin, And let him find it: trifles light as air Are to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ; this may do something. (3.3.326-29) The handkerchief, that is to say, is released as a datum that retroactively... | |
 | Martin Harries - 2000 - 236 pàgines
...as air" (TRR, 302). One might imagine Keynes's haughty response to this allusion to Othello: those "trifles light as air/ Are to the jealous confirmations strong/ As proofs of holy writ" (III. iii. 322-24). This is exacdy the problem Keynes thinks he is investigating: the way words of... | |
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t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ. 
