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... Come , come . 1 Cit . Soft ! who comes here ? Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA . 2 Cit . Worthy Menenius Agrippa ; one that hath always loved the people . 1 Cit . He ' s one honest enough : ' Would all the rest were so ! a Rakes . tool so called ...
... Come , come . 1 Cit . Soft ! who comes here ? Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA . 2 Cit . Worthy Menenius Agrippa ; one that hath always loved the people . 1 Cit . He ' s one honest enough : ' Would all the rest were so ! a Rakes . tool so called ...
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... comes , from them to you , And no way from yourselves . - What do you think ? You , the great toe of this assembly ? — 2 Cit . I the great toe ? Why the great toe ? Men . For that , being one o ' the lowest , basest , poorest , Of this ...
... comes , from them to you , And no way from yourselves . - What do you think ? You , the great toe of this assembly ? — 2 Cit . I the great toe ? Why the great toe ? Men . For that , being one o ' the lowest , basest , poorest , Of this ...
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... " is clear enough , we think ; the wars absorb , eat up the whole man : and then comes the explanation ; he is grown too proud of his valour - of being so valiant . Bru . Fame , at the which he aims , 16 [ ACT 1 . CORIOLANUS .
... " is clear enough , we think ; the wars absorb , eat up the whole man : and then comes the explanation ; he is grown too proud of his valour - of being so valiant . Bru . Fame , at the which he aims , 16 [ ACT 1 . CORIOLANUS .
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... come to visit you . Vir . ' Beseech you , give me leave to retire myself . Vol . Indeed , you shall not . Methinks , I hear hither your husband's drum ; See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair ; As children from a bear , the Volces ...
... come to visit you . Vir . ' Beseech you , give me leave to retire myself . Vol . Indeed , you shall not . Methinks , I hear hither your husband's drum ; See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair ; As children from a bear , the Volces ...
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... comes , and up again ; catched it again : or whether his fall en- raged him , or how ' t was , he did so set his ... Come , lay aside your stitchery ; I must have you play the idle huswife with me this afternoon . Vir . No , good madam ...
... comes , and up again ; catched it again : or whether his fall en- raged him , or how ' t was , he did so set his ... Come , lay aside your stitchery ; I must have you play the idle huswife with me this afternoon . Vir . No , good madam ...
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Page 185 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer : — Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all...
Page 205 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat ; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 146 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 189 - Stand back ! room ! bear back ! Ant. 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 259 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 337 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world: * his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail' and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Page 159 - 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 then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 188 - 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 187 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, (For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all, all honourable men,) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me : But Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 190 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...