Shakspeare's tragedy of Julius Cæsar, 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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... senate , went unto him in the market - place , where he was set by the pulpit for orations , to tell him what honours they had de- creed for him in his absence . But he , sitting still in his majesty , answered them , that his honours ...
... senate , went unto him in the market - place , where he was set by the pulpit for orations , to tell him what honours they had de- creed for him in his absence . But he , sitting still in his majesty , answered them , that his honours ...
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... senate and people . Cæsar was so offended withal , that he deprived Marullus and Flavius of their tribuneships , and accusing them he spake also against the people , and called them Bruti and Cumanit , to wit , beasts , and fools ...
... senate and people . Cæsar was so offended withal , that he deprived Marullus and Flavius of their tribuneships , and accusing them he spake also against the people , and called them Bruti and Cumanit , to wit , beasts , and fools ...
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... 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 . " ' " " Cæsar rising in the morning , she [ his wife ...
... 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 . " ' " " Cæsar rising in the morning , she [ his wife ...
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... senate - house , having begun a long tale of 14 set purpose . So Cæsar coming into the house , all the senate stood up on their feet to do him honour . " 15 16 II . Extracts from Plutarch's Life of Marcus Brutus . " Now there were ...
... senate - house , having begun a long tale of 14 set purpose . So Cæsar coming into the house , all the senate stood up on their feet to do him honour . " 15 16 II . Extracts from Plutarch's Life of Marcus Brutus . " Now there were ...
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... senate - house , the first day of the month of March , because he heard say that Cæsar's friends should move the council that day that Cæsar should be called king by the senate ; Brutus answered him , he would not be there . " [ Cassius ...
... senate - house , the first day of the month of March , because he heard say that Cæsar's friends should move the council that day that Cæsar should be called king by the senate ; Brutus answered him , he would not be there . " [ Cassius ...
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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...