...achievements, or to record American events, in the form of a dramatic piece, he literally becomes " A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unraoving finger at." There are certain hypercritics among us, by whom every attempt to " delineate...

...insolence. Poverty, obscurity, personal privations — these might be tolerable, but, alas ! ~ to be made A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at- • Oli ! thit is too much ! CHAP. II. A late Catholic Peer (Lord Pctre) universally...

...utmost hopes ; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at, — 0 ! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have...

...utmost hopes ; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at,— O! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have...

...be a tower of brass, impregnable, capable of resisting every storm. B. - Oth. But alas ! to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at, — — time of tcorn] The reading of both the elder quartos and the folio is,...

...utmost hopes ; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience. But, alas ! to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow, unmoving figure at— O! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd...

...utmost hopes ; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at, — O ! O ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd 6 up my...

...and my utmost hopes ; Yet still I find, in some place of my soul, A drop of comfort. — I am not yet A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at'— — f For,' continued he, in a less emphatic tone, ' though I hear frequently...

...STEEVENS. 1 And place my merit in THE EYE OF SCORN,] Our author has again personified Scorn in Othello : " A fixed figure, for the time of Scorn " To point his slow vmmovingjinger at." MALONE. 8 — I can set down a story Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted...

...utmost hopes; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at,—- O! O! Yet could I hear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have...