Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius CaesarDent, 1903 - 131 pages |
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... Romans , they stand there , in some degree alone ; and the forming of a great and hazardous determination is more powerfully cal- culated to excite our expectation , than the supporting the consequences of the deed with heroic firmness ...
... Romans , they stand there , in some degree alone ; and the forming of a great and hazardous determination is more powerfully cal- culated to excite our expectation , than the supporting the consequences of the deed with heroic firmness ...
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... Romans , " and more especially from the Lives of Cæsar , Brutus , and Antony . In this play , as in the case of Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra , it ... Roman plays , the dramatist has often borrowed North's very expressions , * while V.
... Romans , " and more especially from the Lives of Cæsar , Brutus , and Antony . In this play , as in the case of Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra , it ... Roman plays , the dramatist has often borrowed North's very expressions , * while V.
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... Roman plays ( 71 and 28 , respectively , in Antony ; 60 and 44 in Coriolanus ) . * It is remarkable that the 1619 edition of The Barons ' Wars , containing a further revision of the passage , comes very near indeed to the passage in ...
... Roman plays ( 71 and 28 , respectively , in Antony ; 60 and 44 in Coriolanus ) . * It is remarkable that the 1619 edition of The Barons ' Wars , containing a further revision of the passage , comes very near indeed to the passage in ...
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... Roman than a Dane , " sees in the apparition of " the buried majesty of Denmark " the precurse of fierce events , even as " In the most high and palmy state of Rome , A little ere the mightiest Julius fell , The graves stood tenantless ...
... Roman than a Dane , " sees in the apparition of " the buried majesty of Denmark " the precurse of fierce events , even as " In the most high and palmy state of Rome , A little ere the mightiest Julius fell , The graves stood tenantless ...
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... Romans ( III . ii . ) has an irre- sistible fascination for the student of the play . Its curtness is said to be in imitation of the speaker's " famed laconic brevity , " whereof Shakespeare found a vivid account in North's Life of ...
... Romans ( III . ii . ) has an irre- sistible fascination for the student of the play . Its curtness is said to be in imitation of the speaker's " famed laconic brevity , " whereof Shakespeare found a vivid account in North's Life of ...
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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
Popular passages
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...