 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...action. There is, for example, 76 Brutus, whose funeral eulogy is so far from being merely formal: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix't in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!' Or there is... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - Art - 1984 - 252 pages
...Scene 4, of Shakespeare's ]ulius Caesar in Antony's summary of the life of recently deceased Brutus: This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators...elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man." But what of the millions of obscure persons whose unremembered... | |
 | Dieter Mehl - Drama - 1986 - 286 pages
...intended to put less favorable aspects in perspective and leaves us with an impression of heroic nobility: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world 'This was a man!' (v. 5. 69- 76)... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common...elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar, act V, scene v, lines... | |
 | R. Rawdon Wilson - Drama - 1995 - 322 pages
...humoral model in mind when he has Antony praise Brutus for the balanced composition of his nature: This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators,...elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" (JC 5.5.68-75) No doubt "elements" does signify the physical... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves Or lose our ventures. This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!' 50 0 reason... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...armies arrive. Octavius is clearly in charge, and Antony is present only to pay tribute to Brutus: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!' (68-75) Finally... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...celebration of Brutus as the single man able to subordinate private, particular end to the general good: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" (5.5.68-75) The speech echoes Brutus's own admission, "And... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...the play, when the conspirators have been defeated, Antony's admiration for Brutus is undiminished: This was the noblest Roman of them all, All the conspirators,...elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" (5.5.68-75) This explains why Cassius needs Brutus among... | |
 | Ernest L. Fortin - Philosophy - 1996 - 404 pages
...Julius Caesar, Antony cannot praise the slain Brutus more highly than by calling him simply "a man": This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators...elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world: "This was a man!" (V.1. 68-75) What renders Augustine's approach to these... | |
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This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. 
