The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, Volume 14C. and A. Conrad, 1809 |
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... Unto some monstrous state . Now could I , Casca , Name to thee a man most like this dreadful night ; That thunders , lightens , opens graves , and roars As doth the lion in the Capitol : A man no mightier than thyself , or me , In ...
... Unto some monstrous state . Now could I , Casca , Name to thee a man most like this dreadful night ; That thunders , lightens , opens graves , and roars As doth the lion in the Capitol : A man no mightier than thyself , or me , In ...
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... unto the people , which he had on this side of the river Tyber . ” So also , in Barret's Alvearie , 1580 : " A garden or an orchard , hor- tus . " - The truth is , that few of our ancestors had in the age of Queen Elizabeth any other ...
... unto the people , which he had on this side of the river Tyber . ” So also , in Barret's Alvearie , 1580 : " A garden or an orchard , hor- tus . " - The truth is , that few of our ancestors had in the age of Queen Elizabeth any other ...
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... unto the ladder turns his back , & c . ] So , in Daniel's Civil Wars , 1602 : 2 " The aspirer , once attain'd unto the top , " Cuts off those means by which himself got up : " And with a harder hand , and straighter rein , " Doth curb ...
... unto the ladder turns his back , & c . ] So , in Daniel's Civil Wars , 1602 : 2 " The aspirer , once attain'd unto the top , " Cuts off those means by which himself got up : " And with a harder hand , and straighter rein , " Doth curb ...
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... unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt : but do not stain The even virtue of our enterprize , 5 Till each man drop by lottery . ] Perhaps the poet alluded to the custom of decimation , i . e . the selection by lot of every ...
... unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt : but do not stain The even virtue of our enterprize , 5 Till each man drop by lottery . ] Perhaps the poet alluded to the custom of decimation , i . e . the selection by lot of every ...
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... unto the day is the evil thereof . " -Cassius not only refers to , but thus explains , the phrase in question , when , in answer to the assertion of Brutus concerning Antony , Act III : " I know that we shall have him well to friend ...
... unto the day is the evil thereof . " -Cassius not only refers to , but thus explains , the phrase in question , when , in answer to the assertion of Brutus concerning Antony , Act III : " I know that we shall have him well to friend ...
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Page 14 - 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. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus, and Caesar : what should be in that Caesar...
Page 7 - O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey ? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 77 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 78 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent ; That day he overcame the Nervii. — Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 77 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 70 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 17 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music : Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Page 29 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Page 161 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Page 94 - Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is a-weary of the world : Hated by one he loves ; braved by his brother...