 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...solace him in the darkness. Cassius is strongly contrasted with Brutus. He is described by Caesar : He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks...loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That... | |
 | Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...thinks too much. Such men are dangerous" (1.2.193- 96); "Would he were fatter!" (1.2.199); "He reads too much, / He is a great observer, and he looks / Quite...loves no plays, / As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music. / Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort / As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit... | |
 | David Mahony - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 296 pages
...He senses the danger in Cassius yet his sense of himself stops him from taking a pre-emptive strike: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know...man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He puts aside the sought-out warnings of soothsayers but is temporarily influenced by his wife, Calphurnia,... | |
 | Michael E. Evans - 2004 - 228 pages
...be alone in a crowd. NOVEMBER 12 (EXODUS 2:9) "Would that he (Cassius) were fatter!" Caesar said of Cassius. "He reads much He is a great observer, and...loves no plays, as thou dost, Antony; he hears no music. Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort as if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit that... | |
 | Aaron Landau - History - 2004 - 200 pages
...uses to distinguish his beloved and trusted Antony from those he fears, such as Cassius, is startling: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know...avoid So soon as that spare Cassius . . . . . . He loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony, he hears no music (1.2.199-201, 203-204). The similarity between... | |
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Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays,... 
