 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. — William Shakespeare The Civil War, the Gettysburg Address tells us, was a test whether popular... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 248 pages
...Caesar, I have not slept. Between the acring of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interini is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream : The genius...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. Enter Lucùu LUCIUS Sir, "ris your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. BRUTUS... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Tragedy - 2001 - 426 pages
...important verbal colour and association, imagery, rhythm — in short, of poetry. Consider Brutus' speech: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar I have...Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a linle kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (ii. i. 61) Compare Macbeth's: This supernatural... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...again.' He thus forcibly describes a conceived intention: 'Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' Elsewhere he says: 'The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power.' Adding: "Tis a... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...overt one that we see. Brutus acknowledges the decisiveness of his commitment though he feels its cost: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (lines 61-9) In this he is like Macbeth, but he himself is the dagger of the mind, to be held by another.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks, [Exit LUCIUS. Since Cassius first did whet me against Cassar, yet I do not: but, as I can learn, He hearkens after...and dreams; And from the cross-row plucks the letter Enter LUCIUS. LUCIUS. Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. MARCUS... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2002 - 436 pages
...rebellion (compare Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, no. 5) to describe to himself his own mental confusion: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar I have...The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in counsel, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 1958 - 336 pages
...so pure an ideal as liberty, endures a severe conflict: Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (II. i. 63) That is the new and deeper note. In Hamlet we are shown a hero of sensitive temperament,... | |
 | Hugh Grady - Drama - 2002 - 320 pages
...with the interim before grand, defining historical acts: Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...to a little kingdom, suffers then The Nature of an insurrection.74 Brutus' images are coloured by a Stoic sensibility seeking internal harmony under the... | |
 | Reneau H. Reneau - Humor - 2003 - 230 pages
...two golden bars. VENI has adopted the McHale standard. "Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then the nature of an insurrection" (from Julius Caesar). Jick's comparison of captains to lieutenants owes a debt to Aldous Huxley's pillowtalk... | |
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I have not slept 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... 
