 | William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - English drama - 1839 - 490 pages
...that are heap'd on Caesar. [Cassias.] 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. Men, at some time, are masters of their fates; The fault, dear Brutus,... | |
 | Ulrich Weisstein - Music and literature - 1994 - 296 pages
...first act he hears Cassius say to Brutus: 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. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus,... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - Psychology - 1994 - 518 pages
...addresses Brutus in lines of memorable envy: 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. So Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Ligarius, and Marcus and Decius... | |
 | Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...honors that are heaped on Caesar. CASSIUS: 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 dishonorable graves. (1.2.133) In the famous forum speeches this second voice is taken over... | |
 | Richard Courtney - Drama - 1995 - 274 pages
...shout, Cassius' voice rises to the fury of: 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. (134-137) This great metaphor is stark, vivid, dramatic. It jolts us... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 220 pages
...hope of honour in his fellow citizens: 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. His tyranny, more moral than political, teaches the Romans servility... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1995 - 304 pages
...represented by the rise of Caesar, remarks, Why, man, he doth destride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves (1.2.136-139) The attenuated gaze of the "petty men" who "peep about"... | |
 | William J. Leonard, Williams J. S. J. Leonard - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 364 pages
...fragments, so huge it recalled the lines, 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 dishonorable graves. The other parts of the museum would not be open until two o'clock, the... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 292 pages
...from republican to imperial status: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, as we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves, (i. ii. 136-39) Hazlitt's Shakespearean representation of Napoleon... | |
 | Stuart Shanker - Mathematics - 2003 - 508 pages
...G. Sbanker ++ I DESCARTES' DOMINION .*^ 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. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus,... | |
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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. 
