 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men "Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.  Plays of Edwin Booth - Page 7by Edwin Booth - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...man of such a feeble temper -should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Brutus—and Ca:sar—What should be in that . Ciesar ? Why should that name be sounded more than yours... | |
 | James Boadan - 1800 - 380 pages
...Athens, but I shall let " Rome" remain in the following quotation, which fairly applies to him : " Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about, To find ourselves dishonourable graves. When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was fam'd with more than with one man ? "... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...insupportable. So Cassius speaks invidiously of Casar, in order to raise the indignation of Brutus ; Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find .ourselves dishonourable graves. So, have neither the appearance nor air of Hyperboles. And this never fails to be the state of those,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...as I love The name of honour more than I fear death. CASSIOS in CONTKMPT of CJESAR, (SHAKESPEARE.) WHY man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a...To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some times are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 410 pages
...shout ! I do believe, that these applauses are For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar. Cas. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world* Like...of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we arc underlings. Brutus, and Caesar : What should.be in that Caesar?... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 432 pages
...shout ! V~' I do believe, that these applauses are For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar. C<w. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like...about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at sometimes are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 454 pages
...shout ! I do believe, that these applauses are For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar. Cos. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like...about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at sometimes are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves,... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...beautiful hyperboles. — How admirably does CASSIUS describe Cxsar's boundless power and ambition ! " Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world " Like...peep about " To find ourselves dishonourable graves." Hear RICHARD descanting upon his deformity <• " I that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty*... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...shout ! I do believe, that these applauses are For some new honours that are heaped on Caesar. Cas. Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable grave?. Men at sometimes are masters of their fates ; The fault, clear Brutus, is not in our stare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 506 pages
...Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, 9 • feeble temper—] L e. temperament, constitution. Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his...in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus, and Cgesar: What should be in that Caesar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them... | |
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