History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3)

by Hippolyte Taine

[672]Ibid. I. 3.

[673]"Othello," II. 3.

[674]Ibid. II. 1.

[675]"Othello," II. 1.

[676]Ibid. IV. 1.

[677]See the like cynicism and scepticism in Richard III. Both begin by slandering human nature, and both are misanthropical of malice prepense.

[678]"Othello," II. 3.

[679]See his conversation with Brabantio, then with Roderigo, Act I.

[680]See again, in Timon, and Hotspur more particularly, perfect examples of vehement and unreasoning imagination.

[681]"Coriolanus," I. 9.