Julius Caesar: With Notes, Introduction and GlossaryH. Holt, 1904 - 92 pages |
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Page viii
... reference in Twelfth Night ( II . iv . 29 ) to a parallel case has often been regarded as suggested by his own state . Shakespeare leaves Stratford for London . - In viii 1583 their first child Susanna was born , followed in ...
... reference in Twelfth Night ( II . iv . 29 ) to a parallel case has often been regarded as suggested by his own state . Shakespeare leaves Stratford for London . - In viii 1583 their first child Susanna was born , followed in ...
Page xii
... references to him occur , to the time of his death in 1616. Of his career independent of his plays , suffice to say that he appeared along with his company before the Queen at Greenwich in 1594 , his name being mentioned second on the ...
... references to him occur , to the time of his death in 1616. Of his career independent of his plays , suffice to say that he appeared along with his company before the Queen at Greenwich in 1594 , his name being mentioned second on the ...
Page xix
... reference in any contemporary records to its having been produced on the stage , and it is not mentioned by Meres in ... references to Antony's funeral oration are too specific to be applicable to any other play : — " The many headed ...
... reference in any contemporary records to its having been produced on the stage , and it is not mentioned by Meres in ... references to Antony's funeral oration are too specific to be applicable to any other play : — " The many headed ...
Page xxiii
... references to the interview and the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius , to the interruption by Phaonius , the poet of the play , to the second interview of the two Generals on the follow- ing day , when Cassius reproaches Brutus for ...
... references to the interview and the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius , to the interruption by Phaonius , the poet of the play , to the second interview of the two Generals on the follow- ing day , when Cassius reproaches Brutus for ...
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... reference will be understood to be to Julius Cæsar . It has been thought better to omit pagination in order that the pupil may become familiar with the text rather by Act , Scene and line , which are usually the same in most editions ...
... reference will be understood to be to Julius Cæsar . It has been thought better to omit pagination in order that the pupil may become familiar with the text rather by Act , Scene and line , which are usually the same in most editions ...
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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...