Julius Caesar: With Notes, Introduction and GlossaryH. Holt, 1904 - 92 pages |
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... meet contemporary tastes and circumstances that Shakespeare proved of such signal service to his company , and almost imperceptibly he passed from redactor or editor into dramatist . His life henceforward , as far as its facts have ...
... meet contemporary tastes and circumstances that Shakespeare proved of such signal service to his company , and almost imperceptibly he passed from redactor or editor into dramatist . His life henceforward , as far as its facts have ...
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... meet desperate needs , and had the lives of hal the Senate been demanded as the price of the preservation of their much - loved Republic , these men would not have shrunk from paying it or perishing in the attempt . Shakespeare , there ...
... meet desperate needs , and had the lives of hal the Senate been demanded as the price of the preservation of their much - loved Republic , these men would not have shrunk from paying it or perishing in the attempt . Shakespeare , there ...
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... meets all the circum- stances of the case , is that Shakespeare aimed at teaching the doctrine , that " Cæsarism " or autocracy tempered by intelligence -an absolutism or personal despotism , in a word , such as Cæsar manifested in his ...
... meets all the circum- stances of the case , is that Shakespeare aimed at teaching the doctrine , that " Cæsarism " or autocracy tempered by intelligence -an absolutism or personal despotism , in a word , such as Cæsar manifested in his ...
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... meet the needs peculiar to the time , inasmuch as it was based upon a practical study of these needs , not on a fanciful conjecture of their cause , founded on assumption in place of observation . Cassius resembled Cæsar in being a wary ...
... meet the needs peculiar to the time , inasmuch as it was based upon a practical study of these needs , not on a fanciful conjecture of their cause , founded on assumption in place of observation . Cassius resembled Cæsar in being a wary ...
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... meet to hear and answer such high things . 170 Till then , my noble friend , chew upon this : Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard conditions as this time Is like to lay upon us . Cas . I ...
... meet to hear and answer such high things . 170 Till then , my noble friend , chew upon this : Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard conditions as this time Is like to lay upon us . Cas . I ...
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Page xxxviii - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 20 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; I am no orator, as Brutus is; But as you know me all, a plain blunt man. That love my friend: and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Page xiii - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Page 12 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart, — that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 14 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
Page lix - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream : The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 15 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 28 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers ; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honors, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus?
Page 14 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an houourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page xxxviii - And do you now put on your best attire ? And do you now cull out a holiday ? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood...