 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...early work, there are others too, as with the 'eye of scorn' of Sonnet 88, parallelled by Othello's fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at. (Othello, iv, ii, 53) Imagery and symbolism we have already discussed : the cosmic, natural, and human... | |
 | Michael C. Corballis - Science - 2003 - 280 pages
...wrongly believing himself humiliated by the faithlessness of his wife, Desdemona: but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ... Old World monkeys, more polite than we are, have never been observed to point... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Literary Collections - 2003 - 824 pages
...Gibber, who was also rather severely 'pelted'. ' Othello, rv. ii. 54-6: 'but, alas, to make me | The fixed figure for the time of scorn | To point his slow and moving finger at.' HF gives the Folio reading; the quarto has 'slow unmoving'. In his 'Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters... | |
 | Steven Croft - 2004 - 212 pages
...hopes, 50 I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. But alas, to make me The fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at Yet could I bear that too, well, very well; 55 But there where I have garnered up my heart, Where either... | |
 | J. B. Leishman - 2005 - 264 pages
...utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience; but, alas, to make me The fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too, well, very well; But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Fiction - 2005 - 900 pages
...utmost hopes, I should have found in some place 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! Yet could I bear that too; well, very well; But there, where I have garnered up... | |
 | Mary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 292 pages
..."audiently" into public space, however, the husband's manhood would be questioned, transforming him into a "fixed figure for the time of scorn / To point his slow and moving finger at" (Othello IV, ii, 56-7) and increasing the likelihood of violence. '"Audiently' ... captures perfectly... | |
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A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at... 
