Shakspeare's tragedy of Julius Cęsar, with intr. remarks; copious interpretation of the text, notes, and adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter. (Oxf. exam. scheme). |
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... comes in triumph over Pompey's blood . " Cęsar had abstained from any triumphal celebration of his victory over Pompey , but respecting his victory over the sons of Pompey in Spain he was not so scrupulous ; and , accordingly , the ...
... comes in triumph over Pompey's blood . " Cęsar had abstained from any triumphal celebration of his victory over Pompey , but respecting his victory over the sons of Pompey in Spain he was not so scrupulous ; and , accordingly , the ...
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... come , " he says , " to bury Cęsar , not to praise him ; " yet how artfully does he contrive to give his language all the effect of the most laudatory panegyric . He had pro- mised to say nothing in dispraise of the conspirators , yet ...
... come , " he says , " to bury Cęsar , not to praise him ; " yet how artfully does he contrive to give his language all the effect of the most laudatory panegyric . He had pro- mised to say nothing in dispraise of the conspirators , yet ...
Page xiv
... come and cut it . Notwithstand- ing it is reported , that afterwards , to excuse his folly , he imputed it to his disease , saying , that their wits are not perfect which have this disease of the falling evil , when standing on their ...
... come and cut it . Notwithstand- ing it is reported , that afterwards , to excuse his folly , he imputed it to his disease , saying , that their wits are not perfect which have this disease of the falling evil , when standing on their ...
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... come to him themselves to tell him what they would have him to do , but in the night did cast sundry papers into the Prętor's seat , where he gave audience , and the most of them to this effect , - ' Thou sleepest , Brutus , and art not ...
... come to him themselves to tell him what they would have him to do , but in the night did cast sundry papers into the Prętor's seat , where he gave audience , and the most of them to this effect , - ' Thou sleepest , Brutus , and art not ...
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... come , Cęsar going into the senate - house , and speaking merrily unto the soothsayer , told him the Ides of March be come ; ' - ' so they be , ' softly answered the soothsayer , but yet are they not past . " ' " " Cęsar rising in the ...
... come , Cęsar going into the senate - house , and speaking merrily unto the soothsayer , told him the Ides of March be come ; ' - ' so they be , ' softly answered the soothsayer , but yet are they not past . " ' " " Cęsar rising in the ...
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adjective adverbial answer art thou battle bear blood Brutus and Cassius Cęs Caius called Calphurnia Capitol Casca Cato CESAR Cicero Cinna Clitus conspiracy crown danger dead death Decius Brutus doth enemies Enter Exeunt Exit Extr Extracts from Plutarch favour fear fire friends give gods hand hast hath hear heart honour humour ides of March Julius Cęsar kill Lepidus Ligarius live look lord Lucilius Lucius Lucius Junius Brutus Lupercalia Marcus Brutus Mark Antony matter means Messala Metellus Cimber mind night noble Brutus North's noun Octavius Philippi phrase Pindarus plucked poet Pompey Pompey's Portia pray pronoun Publius Roman Rome SCENE senate servant Shakspeare Shakspeare's shout sick slain soldiers soothsayer speak spirit stand Strato sword tell thee things thou art thought Titinius to-day traitors Trebonius unto verb Volumnius word wrong
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Page 106 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Page 89 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause, till it come back to me.
Page 90 - Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it; It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad: 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs; For, if you should, O, what would come of it!
Page 40 - And, since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented, Would run to these, and these extremities: And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous; And kill him in the shell.
Page 95 - ... orchards On this side Tiber ; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, — common pleasures, To walk abroad and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another? 1 Cit. Never, never.— Come away, away ! We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors
Page 82 - 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 85 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honor him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 93 - What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do it ; — they are wise and honourable, 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...
Page 88 - 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 86 - Capitol ; his glory not extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences enforced, for which he suffered death. Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR'S body. 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...