Julius Caesar: With Notes, Introduction and GlossaryH. Holt, 1904 - 92 pages |
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... standing had difficulty in procuring the license which gave him a social status . There were at least six companies of adult actors playing at this time , and owning the licenses respectively of the Earls of Leicester , Oxford , Sussex ...
... standing had difficulty in procuring the license which gave him a social status . There were at least six companies of adult actors playing at this time , and owning the licenses respectively of the Earls of Leicester , Oxford , Sussex ...
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... stands the name of Willia Shakespeare . In 1605 William D'Avenant was christened , t son of John D'Avenant of the Crown Inn , and Shakespeare sto as godfather . This babe was afterwards to become celebrated literature as a Restoration ...
... stands the name of Willia Shakespeare . In 1605 William D'Avenant was christened , t son of John D'Avenant of the Crown Inn , and Shakespeare sto as godfather . This babe was afterwards to become celebrated literature as a Restoration ...
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... stands out as the most complex and interesting of the play . This is not the place to note the differences and similarities between the " Antony " of this drama and the hero of the Antony and Cleopatra . Suffice to say they are in some ...
... stands out as the most complex and interesting of the play . This is not the place to note the differences and similarities between the " Antony " of this drama and the hero of the Antony and Cleopatra . Suffice to say they are in some ...
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... Stand you directly in Antonius ' way , When he doth run his course . Ant . Cæsar , my lord ? Antonius ! Cas . Forget not , in your speed , Antonius , To touch Calpurnia ; for our elders say , The barren , touched in this holy chase ...
... Stand you directly in Antonius ' way , When he doth run his course . Ant . Cæsar , my lord ? Antonius ! Cas . Forget not , in your speed , Antonius , To touch Calpurnia ; for our elders say , The barren , touched in this holy chase ...
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... Stand close awhile , for here comes one in haste . Cas . " Tis Cinna ; I do know him by his gait ; He is a friend . 120 130 Enter Cinna . Who's that ? Metellus Cimber ? Cinna , where haste you so ? Cin . To find out you . Cas . No , it ...
... Stand close awhile , for here comes one in haste . Cas . " Tis Cinna ; I do know him by his gait ; He is a friend . 120 130 Enter Cinna . Who's that ? Metellus Cimber ? Cinna , where haste you so ? Cin . To find out you . Cas . No , it ...
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adverbial Alarum Antony and Cleopatra bear blood Brutus and Cassius Caius Calpurnia Capitol Casca Cassius Cicero Cinna Coriolanus Cymbeline death dost doth Elizabethan enemy Exeunt Exit fear Fourth Cit Gentlemen of Verona give gods Greek Hamlet hand hast hath hear heart Henry honour ides of March Introduction THE TRAGEDY Julius Cæsar King Lear Lepidus Ligarius live look lord Love's Labour's Lost Lucilius Lupercal Macbeth Mark Antony means Messala night noble Brutus North's Plutarch Octavius Philippi Pindarus play Plutarch poet Pompey Pompey's Portia Publius Richard Richard III Roman Rome scene Senate sense Shake Shakespeare speak spirit stand Stratford Strato sword syllable tell Tempest thee thews things Third Cit thou art Tiber Titinius to-day Trebonius Troilus and Cressida unto verb verse Volumnius word ΙΟ وو
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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...