[41] rave.
[42] mad.
[43] here upon, or perhaps haro!
[OTHELLO.]
ACT I.
Scene 3. Page 422.
Oth. Wherein of antres vast and desarts idle.
Dr. Johnson has very properly taken notice of Mr. Pope's inadvertency in substituting wild for idle; but whether he is strictly right in regarding this word as "poetically beautiful," according to Shakspeare's use of it, may admit of some doubt. Perhaps in a modern writer it would be poetical, where designed to express infertility. It may be worth while to examine how it was originally used.