 | Evan Eisenberg - Performing Arts - 2005 - 260 pages
...being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs; . . . 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: and proposed marriage, catching Desdemona's hint but missing her society's - that in the natural... | |
 | Patricia Parker - History - 2005 - 254 pages
...wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me 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. (1.3.163-67) As reported by Othello, Desdemona 's "if I had a friend that loved her" seems at first... | |
 | Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, Ludmilla A. Trigos - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 489 pages
...never have suspected Desdemona's love had she not hinted it to him herself: She thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but...my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake. (1 .3.159-60) The very simplicity of Othello's speech which wins him Desdemona's heart is borrowed... | |
 | Sarah Luria - Architecture - 2006 - 250 pages
...wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me; 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 . . . (I, iii, I58-66)37 FIG. 3.2. C. Becker, Othello engraving, c. 1880, Ceclar H1ll. Fmlerick Do1\fflaa... | |
 | P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast - Young Adult Fiction - 2007 - 324 pages
...she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but...my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them. " Erik touched... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 288 pages
...pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful ... yet she wish'd that heaven had made her such a man," and "bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, / I should but...teach him how to tell my story, / And that would woo her,"58 Henrietta and Louisa respond with "eager admiration," and "exclamations of pity and horror,"... | |
 | James R. Hartman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 518 pages
...wished That heaven had made her such a man. She thanked me; 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 opportunity I spoke. She loved me for the dangers I had experienced, And 1 loved her that she did pity... | |
 | Jude Morgan - Fiction - 2007 - 398 pages
...That's Othello, telling how he won Desdemona. 'She thanked me, 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.' Do you know, I have always found that part of it most unlikely . . . which goes to show something .... | |
 | Thomas MacFaul - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 9 pages
...that later on might seem a seed of jealousy. He says she . . . 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. (i. iii. 164—6) The play makes no direct connection between this and die later revelation that Cassio... | |
 | Jude Morgan - Fiction - 2007 - 398 pages
...That's Othello, telling how he won Desdemona. 'She thanked me, 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.' Do you know, I have always found that part of it most unlikely . . . which goes to show something .... | |
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I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. 
