The beauties of Shakespear: regularly selected from each play, with explanatory notes and similar passages from ancient and modern authors by W. Dodd, Volume 2 |
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Page 95
... Cæsar . Now in the names of all the gods at once , Upon what meat doth this our Cæfar feed , That he is grown fo great ? Age , thou art sham'd ; Rome , thou haft lost the breed of noble bloods . When went there by an age , fince the ...
... Cæsar . Now in the names of all the gods at once , Upon what meat doth this our Cæfar feed , That he is grown fo great ? Age , thou art sham'd ; Rome , thou haft lost the breed of noble bloods . When went there by an age , fince the ...
Page 96
... Cæsar . SCENE VII . Spirit of Liberty . I know , where I will wear this dagger then : Caffius from bondage will deliver Caffius . Therein , ye gods , you make the weak most strong ; Therein , ye gods , you tyrants do defeat : Nor ftony ...
... Cæsar . SCENE VII . Spirit of Liberty . I know , where I will wear this dagger then : Caffius from bondage will deliver Caffius . Therein , ye gods , you make the weak most strong ; Therein , ye gods , you tyrants do defeat : Nor ftony ...
Page 101
... ( note 5. ) no followers of Shakespear ap- proach fo near him as Beaumont and Fletcher ; of which he adds the Lines here quoted as a ftrong proof : F 3 Fix Shall in these confines , with a monarch's voice , JULIUS CÆSAR . 10'1.
... ( note 5. ) no followers of Shakespear ap- proach fo near him as Beaumont and Fletcher ; of which he adds the Lines here quoted as a ftrong proof : F 3 Fix Shall in these confines , with a monarch's voice , JULIUS CÆSAR . 10'1.
Page 103
... do know . You all did love him once , not without cause : What caufe with - holds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment thou art fled to brutish beafts , F 4 And -Bear with me , And men have loft their reason.- JULIUS CÆSAR . 103.
... do know . You all did love him once , not without cause : What caufe with - holds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment thou art fled to brutish beafts , F 4 And -Bear with me , And men have loft their reason.- JULIUS CÆSAR . 103.
Page 104
... Cæsar ; I found it in his clofet , ' tis his will ; .. Let but the commons hear this teflament , ( Which , pardon me , I do not mean to read ) And they would go and kifs dead Cæfar's wounds , And dip their napkins in his facred blood ...
... Cæsar ; I found it in his clofet , ' tis his will ; .. Let but the commons hear this teflament , ( Which , pardon me , I do not mean to read ) And they would go and kifs dead Cæfar's wounds , And dip their napkins in his facred blood ...
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Page 101 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 101 - 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 142 - Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
Page 239 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 102 - 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 122 - Alas! sir, are you here? things that love night love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies gallow the very wanderers of the dark, and make them keep their caves. Since I was man such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never remember to have heard; man's nature cannot carry the affliction nor the fear.
Page 52 - Content!' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 93 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Page 110 - O Cassius ! you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire, Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 116 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun the moon and the stars ; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards liars and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in by a divine thrusting on...