In shakespeare's play, the tempest, the character ferdinand flirts with
miranda.
ferdinand
for several virtues
have i liked several women; never any
with so fun soul, but some defect in her
did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
and put it to the foil: but you, o you,
so perfect and so peerless, are created
of every creature's best!
based on the passage, what idea is best conveyed by ferdinand's choice of
the phrase "put it to the foil"?
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a. the women's defects were as important to him as their graces.
b. the women's defects were unimportant to him,
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c. the women's defects were all of the same type.
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d. the women's defects were more powerful than their graces
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In this excerpt from "quality" by john galsworthy, which two parts clearly indicate the literary point of view of the essay? that tenement had a certain quiet distinction; there was no sign upon its face that he made for any of the royal family—merely his own german name of gessler brothers; and in the window a few pairs of boots. i remember that it always troubled me to account for those unvarying boots in the window, for he made only what was ordered, reaching nothing down, and it seemed so inconceivable that what he made could ever have failed to fit. had he bought them to put there? that, too, seemed inconceivable. he would never have tolerated in his house leather on which he had not worked himself. besides, they were too beautiful—the pair of pumps, so inexpressibly slim, the patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth, the tall brown riding boots with marvellous sooty glow, as if, though new, they had been worn a hundred years. those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the soul of boot—so truly were they prototypes incarnating the very spirit of all foot-gear. these thoughts, of course, came to me later, though even when i was promoted to him, at the age of perhaps fourteen, some inkling haunted me of the dignity of himself and brother. for to make boots—such boots as he made—seemed to me then, and still seems to me, mysterious and wonderful.