Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius CaesarDent, 1903 - 131 pages |
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... Cassius . Cæsar is not the hero of the piece , but Brutus . The amiable beauty of his character , his feeling and patriotic heroism , are portrayed with peculiar care . Yet the poet has pointed out with great nicety the superiority of ...
... Cassius . Cæsar is not the hero of the piece , but Brutus . The amiable beauty of his character , his feeling and patriotic heroism , are portrayed with peculiar care . Yet the poet has pointed out with great nicety the superiority of ...
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... Cassius is imitated ) . ( iii ) After the publication of the First Folio we have Thomas May's Latin Play , 1625 , and George Chapman's " Cæsar and Pompey : a Roman Tragedy , declaring their wars , out of whose events is evicted this ...
... Cassius is imitated ) . ( iii ) After the publication of the First Folio we have Thomas May's Latin Play , 1625 , and George Chapman's " Cæsar and Pompey : a Roman Tragedy , declaring their wars , out of whose events is evicted this ...
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... Cassius . servants to Brutus . DARDANIUS , PINDARUS , servant to Cassius . CALPURNIA , wife to Cæsar . PORTIA , wife to Brutus . Senators , Citizens , Guards , Attendants , & c . SCENE : Rome ; the neighbourhood of Sardis ; the ...
... Cassius . servants to Brutus . DARDANIUS , PINDARUS , servant to Cassius . CALPURNIA , wife to Cæsar . PORTIA , wife to Brutus . Senators , Citizens , Guards , Attendants , & c . SCENE : Rome ; the neighbourhood of Sardis ; the ...
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... Cassius , and Casca a great crowd following , among them a Soothsayer . Ces . Calpurnia ! Casca . Peace , ho ! Cæsar speaks . ; Cas . Cal . Here , my lord . [ Music ceases . Calpurnia ! Cas . Stand you directly in Antonius ' way , When ...
... Cassius , and Casca a great crowd following , among them a Soothsayer . Ces . Calpurnia ! Casca . Peace , ho ! Cæsar speaks . ; Cas . Cal . Here , my lord . [ Music ceases . Calpurnia ! Cas . Stand you directly in Antonius ' way , When ...
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... Cassius . Cas . Will you go see the order of the course ? Bru . Not I. Cas . I pray you , do . Bru . I am not gamesome : I do lack some part Of that quick spirit that is in Antony . Let me not hinder , Cassius , your desires ; I'll ...
... Cassius . Cas . Will you go see the order of the course ? Bru . Not I. Cas . I pray you , do . Bru . I am not gamesome : I do lack some part Of that quick spirit that is in Antony . Let me not hinder , Cassius , your desires ; I'll ...
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Alarum art thou ARTEMIDORUS bear blood Brutus and Cassius Cæsar doth Calpurnia Capitol Casar Casca Cato Cicero Cinna Clitus conj countrymen dangerous Dardanius dead death Decius Brutus deed dost durst enemy Enter Brutus Exeunt eyes Farewell fear fire follow Fourth Cit give gods grief Hamlet hand hath hear heart hence honour humour ides of March Jonson Julius Cæsar Lepidus Ligarius live look lord Lucil Lucilius Marcus Brutus Mark Antony means Messala Metellus Cimber mighty night noble Brutus North's Octavius pardon Peace Philippi Pindarus play Plutarch Pompey's Portia Publius pulpit Re-enter Lucius Roman Rome Scene senators Shakespeare shout sick Sooth speak speech spirit stand Strato streets sword tell thee thing Third Cit thou art thou hast Tiber Titinius to-day to-night traitors Trebonius unto vile Volumnius word wrong
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Page 3 - 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 74 - 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: and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Page 67 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 26 - It must be by his death : and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd : — How that might change his nature, there's the question : It is the bright day that brings forth the adder ; And that craves wary walking.
Page 3 - To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone ! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
Page 63 - 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.
Page 73 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him : then burst his mighty heart ; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar felL O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
Page 89 - Plutus' mine, richer than gold : If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth ; I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart : Strike, as thou didst at Caesar; for. I know, When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.
Page 70 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters, if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage...
Page 72 - 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...