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    j ^ d ge e * h £ rwi § e ? for consider that soliloquy of Jag ^ wbich « 0 ii 41 u ^ e 8 t 6 e flwt scene of the second act ; there flwi trttti illi ^ a mrt . He s&ys , —* ¦ - ¦ . . *¦ ¦• : . v-^ h > <* Thd thought whereof Doth , Bile a poisonous mineral , gnaw my inwards "

    And he is not only jealous of Othello and determined to be " even with him—wife for wife / ' but he is actually jealous of Michael Cassio : — " For I fear Cassio with my night-cap tod . " ] $ ow , is this character understood ? How is Iago represented ? A black-muzzled fellow , with a continual viltenbus sneer ! This is a gross mistake . Iago was no sneerer ; if he

    hjtd sneered he would never have been called honest Iago . " mitt sneerers are called clever , and are hated ; poor sneerers irf called wicked , and are hated . I picture to myself Iago as & iniddle-sized man , neither very dark , nor fair ; with the gfcit of a soldier , broad-chested , muscular arms , a massive head ,

    rather plain face , with a sword-scar on his cheek and nearly across his nose . * Sneer he does not , but his large reflective OTgans , topemding into that quick perception of the ridiculous , which is considered a characteristic of all men of large mental powers , aire subdued by his Secretiveness combined with his

    other propensities , into a dry , sarcastic htimOiir ,- * --as witness his jests , coarse language , equivoques , and his drinking songs . He is no sneerer . He is a man of action- ^—in continual thought and action for his own interests . He says himself , and acts tipon the saying , —

    < , . " Dull not device by coldness and delay . " Nb btte of the characters in the tragedy judge him to be a ffa $ rose in&ti , titiuch more a wicked man . His wife even , to i $ 0 x lie , ( ail all men do , discovers most of his natural temper , Ijjp ^ HSi 6 huh only as her " wayward husband . "f Through X tTti lJmJ ik I , S ' i . i ¦ ' ¦ '¦ „ '

    • This last characteristic of the scar , we think very fine and true , as also his gait , bearing and stature ; but the portrait does not entirely agree with our idea . "We think of lago as a swarthy man , with a large strong-marked mouth , and prominent , bony nose j somewhat over-hanging eye-brows and eye-lids , with small , clear , dark-Brown e ^ es j bf sinewy frame , and large bones rather than very muscular . Alto - gfttner a hanasome , dark , officer like man , who has seen hard actual service , having risen from the ranks by superior energies of mind and body , all tending to immediate action . —Ed . J't AtaJfc * of him !"—true ; but what doe * she think ? What would her lQqttJsay ?^ - £ D . - Desdkmona . Alas , Ihi has no speech . t , Ixao . In faith too much . : t find it still when % have hit to sleep , Sht put * her tbngua « littlt in her heart , And Glides with thinki ™ .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/24/