Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius CaesarJ.M. Dent, 1903 - 131 pages |
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... mighty Cæsar . ' The following is a fairly full list of the more important allusions : -As You Like It ( V. ii . 34-35 ) ; 2 Henry IV . ( I. i . 20-24 ; IV . iii . 45-46 ) ; Henry V. ( Chorus Act V. ) ; 1 Henry VI . ( I. i . 55-56 ; I ...
... mighty Cæsar . ' The following is a fairly full list of the more important allusions : -As You Like It ( V. ii . 34-35 ) ; 2 Henry IV . ( I. i . 20-24 ; IV . iii . 45-46 ) ; Henry V. ( Chorus Act V. ) ; 1 Henry VI . ( I. i . 55-56 ; I ...
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... mighty gods by tokens send Such dreadful heralds to astonish us . Cas . You are dull , Casca , and those sparks of life That should be in a Ro : nan you do want , Or else you use not . You look pale and gaze And put on fear and cast ...
... mighty gods by tokens send Such dreadful heralds to astonish us . Cas . You are dull , Casca , and those sparks of life That should be in a Ro : nan you do want , Or else you use not . You look pale and gaze And put on fear and cast ...
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... mighty fire Begin it with weak straws : what trash is Rome , What rubbish and what offal , when it serves For the base matter to illuminate So vile a thing as Cæsar ! But , O grief , Where hast thou led me ? I perhaps speak this Before ...
... mighty fire Begin it with weak straws : what trash is Rome , What rubbish and what offal , when it serves For the base matter to illuminate So vile a thing as Cæsar ! But , O grief , Where hast thou led me ? I perhaps speak this Before ...
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... about the streets . O Cæsar ! these things are beyond all use , And I do fear them . What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods ? Yet Cæsar shall go forth ; for these predictions Are 42 Act II . Sc . ii . The Tragedy of.
... about the streets . O Cæsar ! these things are beyond all use , And I do fear them . What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods ? Yet Cæsar shall go forth ; for these predictions Are 42 Act II . Sc . ii . The Tragedy of.
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... so far , To be afeard to tell graybeards the truth ? Decius , go tell them Cæsar will not come . Dec. Most mighty Cæsar , let me know some cause , 50 60 know . 70 Lest I be laugh'd at when I 44 Act II . Sc . ii . The Tragedy of.
... so far , To be afeard to tell graybeards the truth ? Decius , go tell them Cæsar will not come . Dec. Most mighty Cæsar , let me know some cause , 50 60 know . 70 Lest I be laugh'd at when I 44 Act II . Sc . ii . The Tragedy of.
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Alarum art thou battles of Philippi bear blood Brutus and Cassius Cæsar doth Calpurnia Capitol Casar Casca Cassius Cato CHERONIA Cicero Cinna Clitus conj countrymen dangerous dead death Decius Brutus deed dost Edition enemy Enter Brutus Exeunt Farewell fear follow Fourth Cit funeral give gods grief Hamlet hand hath hear heart hence honour humour ides of March Jonson Julius Cæsar Lepidus Ligarius live look lord Lucil Lucilius Lupercalia Marcus Brutus Mark Antony means Messala Metellus Cimber mighty night noble Brutus North's Plutarch Octavius pardon 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 thing Third Cit thou art Titinius to-day to-night traitors Trebonius unto vile Volumnius word wrong
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Page 72 - 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 xiv - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Page 25 - 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. Crown him?— That;— And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 82 - CAS. That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this: You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella, For taking bribes here of the Sardians; Wherein my letters, praying on his side, Because I knew the man, were slighted off. BRU. You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case. CAS. In such a time as this it is not meet That every nice offence should bear his comment.
Page 83 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers ; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honors, For so much trash, as may be grasped thus?
Page 65 - 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 xiv - I would not, Cassius, yet I love him well. But wherefore do you hold me here so long ? What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i...
Page 21 - Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong ; Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat: Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit ; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Page xiv - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
Page 64 - 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.