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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. "
The speaker: or, Miscellaneous pieces selected from the best English writers ... - Page 192
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 670 pages
...general shout! I do believe that these applauses are For some new honors that are heaped on Caesar. Cog. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like...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...
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The Scourge of the Ocean: A Story of the Atlantic

Robert Burts - 1851 - 226 pages
...shoes are too large for me," responded the maiden. Ellen sighed, and thought of Everett. CHAPTER XIII. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like...under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. JULIUS CAESAR. THE Ganymede again swung at her moorings off the southern end of...
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The New American Speaker: A Collection of Oratorical and Dramatical Pieces ...

John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...general shout ! I do believe that these applauses are For some new honors that are heaped on Caesar. Cag. 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...
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Shakespeare's World of Death: The Early Tragedies

Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...his attack until, at Brutus' reaction to another offstage shout, Cassius' voice rises to the fury of: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (134-137) This great metaphor is stark, vivid, dramatic. It jolts us for it is double. Caesar is first...
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Where Thousands Fell

William J. Leonard, Williams J. S. J. Leonard - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 364 pages
...are museums, in one of them a statue of Constantino, now in fragments, so huge it recalled the lines, Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. The other parts of the museum would not be open until two o'clock, the guard told...
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Shakespeare Studies, Volume 23

J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...new, imperial political idiom represented by the rise of Caesar, remarks, Why, man, he doth destride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves (1.2.136-139) The attenuated gaze of the "petty men" who "peep about" also offers a contrast with the...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...shout! I do believe that these applauses are For some new honours that are heapt on Cœsar. CASSIUS. erland, What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty...leave to live till Richard die? You make a leg, and time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...in water. 10274 Henry ViII Some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two. 10275JuliusCaesar sweats, None time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves, that...
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Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life

Alan Schom - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 948 pages
...1800-1815. I. Title. DC2O3-S36 1997 944.05^92 — dc*i 97-5805 ISBN 0-06-092958-8 (pbk.) 03 0405»/RRD 1098 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time were masters of their fates. E, JULIUS CAESAR . . . I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger...
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Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891

Roderick J. Barman - History - 1999 - 582 pages
...country." 78 In sum, politicians of both ruling parties echoed Cassius's complaint against Julius Caesar: "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like...under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves." 75 Given that by 1872 Pedro II had been ruling for over thirty years, a long...
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