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might not have fallen into the snare which caught him bo fast , and wrung him so crti ^ Hy , > There are few of our lookingglasses which would not present a curious picture-gallery—if they could be made to give up the physiognomies— " turkeycock " and else- —which they have reflected in their time—to which Malvolio ' s shadow on the garden gravel-walk were humility . I never overheard another such soliloquy us Maivolio ' s ; but I am well acquainted with silent imaginationsunspoken hopes—beliefs—resolutions—which would square strangely with his oral deliverings .
Ihere is sufficient matter in the speeches of MaIvoho to mark him a man of sense—the subject of his own qualifications apart . His behaviour in the matter of the ring , according to his information , is appropriate , and worthy of a servant of his mistress . His answers touching Pythagoras and the wildfowl—his proposal , as a test of his sanity , " of some constant question /* are of this import ; and how much is implied of esteem in the hasty expression of Olivia , under serious impression of his madness , that " she would not have-him-miscarry for the half of her dowry "—omitted , be it observed , in the representation . In his complaint of Olivia having given her drunken brawling cousin " rule over him , " a just sense of comparative worth of character breaks out , no less than an honourable conception of what character should determine and command . Butheis " sick of self-love ; " he sympathises not with Olivia ' s
relaxation of her melancholy with the Fool ; and the discord is as harsh as in his subsequent rebuke of Sir Toby ' s orgies . lie was of a habit of mind incapable of harmonizing with any system of domestic society including cheerful sociability . On " this vice in him" the conspirators are naturally led to work , and equally in the course of nature do his mortifications follow . Baited by the Fool and Fabian , the nerves of the real Malvolio could hardly have twinged more painfully than mine to see his representation !
But the morality is sound , the justice is unimpeachable ; and Sir Toby and Sir Andrew , drunk , and with broken coxcombs , are dismissed in a state sufficiently contemptible to make , as Olivia declares , a balance . But , Ellen Tree—Viola ! Modest , finished , beautiful . But the curtailments , the omissions—oh , the p ity of them ! Why was Olivia ' s inventory omitted , and Maria & " Will you hoist
sail , sir , " and its answer , and the " excellentl y done , if God did all / 1 and the dialogue with the Clown— " I » aw thee late at the Count 4 OrsinoV *«— " Foolery , « ir , does walk about the orb : like the . sun , it shines every where . " And then , the " westward hoe . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/41/
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