 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1891 - 802 páginas
...beauty that whenever I looked at it I was reminded of the famous handkerchief that Othello describes: "That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give ; there's magic in the web of it. A sybil that had numbered in the world the sun to make two hundred compasses in her prophetic fancy... | |
 | Janet Adelman - 1992 - 396 páginas
...magical power to stabilize male desire turns increasingly on the magical power of long-dead women: that handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give . . . . . . there's magic in the web of it; A sibyl, that had number'd in the world The sun to make two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury... | |
 | Patricia A. Parker - 1996 - 408 páginas
...of Desdemona's unseen honor (IV.i.16) and of Othello's exotic history, linked with Africa and Egypt ("that handkerchief/ Did an Egyptian to my mother give"; "there's magic in the web of it," III.iv.5558, 69ff.). Embroidered "alla moresca" in Cinthio, the play's Italian source, and "spotted... | |
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... that handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give . . . . . . there's magic in the web of it; A sibyl, that had number'd in the world The sun to make two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work; The worms were hallow'd that did breed... 