 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...Shakespeare, 1598-9, Much Ado About Nothing, II. iii. 18 29:102 [Cassio, on the power of wine] O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! William Shakespeare, 1603-4, Othello, II. iii. 283 29: 103 [Antonio, of Gonzalo] Fie, what a spendthrift... | |
 | Kenneth Gross - 2001 - 304 pages
...Cassio's complaint about the dangers of drink applies almost as well to speech in this play: "O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains!" (2. 3.285-87). 34. See Giorgio Agamben, Stanze: La parola e il fantasma nella cultura occidentale (Turin:... | |
 | Thomas Leech - 2001 - 328 pages
...Bush's) term. The general agreed with Levin: "Oh, yes sir. I think the chart clearly shows that." Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains. Cassie, Othello. 2, 3 Here are a few other examples of mouth going without brain adequately in charge.... | |
 | Kodŭng Kwahagwŏn (Korea). International Conference, Kenji Fukaya - 2001 - 940 pages
...abnormally susceptible to the pernicious effects of his body's ingestion of alcohol (2.3.30ff): "O god, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brain" (281-3). Poison is Othello's choice for killing Desdemona, before lago persuades him to use... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 pages
...CASSIO I remember a mass of things, but nothing dis278 tinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away 280 their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, 281 and applause transform ourselves into... | |
 | Ewan Fernie - 2002 - 292 pages
...details that Shakespeare's representations of shame are most richly convincing. Cassio goes on: 0 God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal...revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts. (2.3.280-3) 1 will ask for my place again, he shall tell me I am a drunkard: had I as many mouths as... | |
 | John G. Robertson - 2003 - 214 pages
...People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. -Ann Landers O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains. -Cassio, in Othello by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Drunkeness is nothing but voluntary madness.... | |
 | James H. Humphrey - 2003 - 216 pages
...to speech and sensory and bodily control. Fans of Shakespeare may remember that Othello says, "God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains." The extent to which it is safe and justifiable to entrust behavior to a more or less narcotized upper... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Steven Croft - 2004 - 212 pages
...260 I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly - a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal...revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts! IAGO Why, but you are now well enough. How came you thus recovered? 265 CASSIO It hath pleased the... | |
 | John J. McGraw - 2004 - 422 pages
...that can prevent seizures without leaving the epileptic in a state of chronic sedation. Alcohol O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal...revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts! — William Shakespeare, Othello1 About ten thousand years ago mankind left the caves. Gone were the... | |
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O God ! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ; that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts. 
