 | Larissa Z. Tiedens, Colin Wayne Leach - Psychology - 2004 - 386 pages
...Cassius, a literary prototype of the envying person, as he protests the honors being heaped on Caesar: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. (Shakespeare, 1599/1934, p. 41) These words show an important quality of envy.... | |
 | Jean-Claude Koven - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 454 pages
..."Let me offer instead Julius Caesar — liberally paraphrased, I might add, by William Shakespeare: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in... | |
 | George Eliot - Fiction - 2004 - 744 pages
...224 BCE. There is an echo here of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1623), Act 1, Scene 2, lines 133-35: "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/ Like...under his huge legs, and peep about/ To find ourselves dishonorable graves." Controlled bleeding and raising of blisters, treatments associated with the outmoded... | |
 | Mark Zepezauer - Business & Economics - 2004 - 198 pages
...Two: Big Business Breaks FOOP STAMPS Tax Avoidance by Transnationals ($137.2 billion a year) UUhy. man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus,...under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves."1 Cassius's description of Caesar is hard to beat for giving the flavor of how... | |
 | Richard Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 376 pages
...the Americans.8 The words Shakespeare put in the mouth of thoroughly modern Cassius spring to mind: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like...about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fate: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves... | |
 | Ernest Schanzer - Art - 2005 - 216 pages
...Caesar's greatness dwarfs his own achievements, and makes it impossible for him to gain glory and renown. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (1.2.135-8) 'Honour', a word which occupies the same central position in this play as does 'honesty'... | |
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. 
