 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 510 pages
...you, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward favour. Well, honour is the subject of my story.— I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this...had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caasar; so were you : We both have fed as well; and we can both... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...vou, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward' favour. Well, honour is the subject of my story. — I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single seit I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a tiling as I myself. I was born free as Cssar... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...of my story. — I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single eelf, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Ccesar; so were you : We both have fed as well ; and we can both... | |
 | Derek Traversi - Literary Criticism - 1963 - 300 pages
...aims are admirably interwoven in the development of the long speech from its significant preface : I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. [I. ii. 95.] The implied criticism of Caesar as 'a thing', inflated beyond the proportions... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 750 pages
...there be a rabble, we all belong to it. To fear mob rule in America is to tremble at one's own shadow. "I had as lief not' be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself." We have always denied the need and the existence of a ruling class. The nearest... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...only too personal. What nags at him is simply envy of Caesar: 'for my single self, he says to Brutus: I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. . . . . . . And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature... | |
 | Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 230 pages
...Spenser and Irving Ribner - take the same view.65 After all, Cassius, who was no philosopher, said: I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. (Julius Caesar, 1.2.95-6) To a groundling - and why should we neglect him? - the... | |
 | Timothy Hampton - History - 1990 - 332 pages
...admiration. This self-promotion is figured by Cassius in his speech to Brutus as a kind of self-admiration: I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this...had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. (1-2.93-96) Like Montaigne's Cato, Caesar becomes the spectator of his own glory.... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - History - 1996 - 363 pages
...the President, and of the dangerous consequences that may follow a refusal of his request, still— 'I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself'." 21 A week later, Humphrey once more turned to Dill for help, this time stating... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...freedom — specifically with freedom from Caesar. Cassius is totally sincere in his belief that he had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself (95-96) because he was "born as free as Caesar." Brutus' ignorance of Cassius' manipulation... | |
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I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. 
