The book Shakespeare-Characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate was written by author Charles Cowden Clarke Here you can read free online of Shakespeare-Characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Shakespeare-Characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate a good or bad book?
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A trinket, a bauble, engrosses such a woman's soul to the exclusion of aught beside. She will go through any amount of meanness to wheedle a man into purchasing it for her, while, with it, he may beguile her of any amount of un- worthy submission. The pedlar's knacks and gaudy trash absorb Mopsa's whole gloating vision ; she never ceases pes- tering her swain to ''buy" for her; she even grives up the darling delight of bickering and squabbling with Dorcas for the dearer delight of coaxing all s...he can out of her soft- V skulled gallant. That he finds his account in '* treating " her we gather from her own obtuse betrayals. In Mopsa's eager- ness for the pedlar's tawdry laces and ribbons, with the fool's price she blindly pays for them, believing that she gets fthem for ^'nothing'' — ^that eternal pitfall of the fool-buyer!— "Getting a bargain for nothing!" — in Mopsa's cupidity we have a symbol of those of her sex who, for a shawl, a bracelet, r or a silk dress, sacrifice their dignity of spirit, their honesty J^ of truth, their self-respect They calculate that it costs them \pnly a few fawning words — "only I" when in these are com- prised the abandonment of women's just claims to be the friend and " equal " of man, which they are everlastingly talking about, and using such miserable means to accomplish.
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