The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 15Harper & Brothers, 1908 |
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... Mark Antonie had showne His virtues , who but Brutus then was vicious ? " Weever is credited with echoing here a familiar phrase from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar . But another conclusion is possible . Unlike Shakespeare , Plutarch ...
... Mark Antonie had showne His virtues , who but Brutus then was vicious ? " Weever is credited with echoing here a familiar phrase from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar . But another conclusion is possible . Unlike Shakespeare , Plutarch ...
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... , but there is no mark of immaturity , no falter- ing of the firm master - hand . ― The characteristics of the metre and the mode in which prose is employed equally dissociate this Roman tragedy from [ xii ] JULIUS CÆSAR.
... , but there is no mark of immaturity , no falter- ing of the firm master - hand . ― The characteristics of the metre and the mode in which prose is employed equally dissociate this Roman tragedy from [ xii ] JULIUS CÆSAR.
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... marks a measure of advance on Julius Caesar in the sustained vivacity of characterisation , and to a smaller degree in metrical facility . According to unquestionable external evidence , Hamlet was [ xiii ] INTRODUCTION.
... marks a measure of advance on Julius Caesar in the sustained vivacity of characterisation , and to a smaller degree in metrical facility . According to unquestionable external evidence , Hamlet was [ xiii ] INTRODUCTION.
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... Mark Antony in addition to the life of Caesar . Grévin had much dramatic feeling . Cal- purnia's fears and her appeal to Caesar to absent him- self from the Senate on the fateful Ides of March are clothed by him in vivid language . The ...
... Mark Antony in addition to the life of Caesar . Grévin had much dramatic feeling . Cal- purnia's fears and her appeal to Caesar to absent him- self from the Senate on the fateful Ides of March are clothed by him in vivid language . The ...
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... Mark Antony , Decimus Brutus , and Cassius . Cassius ' speech glows throughout Garnier's drama of Cornélie with revolutionary ardour . Garnier's experi- ments in Roman tragedy are the more noteworthy in that two of them , - Marc Antoine ...
... Mark Antony , Decimus Brutus , and Cassius . Cassius ' speech glows throughout Garnier's drama of Cornélie with revolutionary ardour . Garnier's experi- ments in Roman tragedy are the more noteworthy in that two of them , - Marc Antoine ...
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Page 73 - 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 75 - tis his will: Let but the commons hear this testament— Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read— And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue.
Page 72 - Here, under leave of 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 81 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 92 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 70 - ... judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against 20 Caesar, this is my answer : not that I loved Caesar less, ... but that I loved Rome more.
Page 28 - Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 14 - To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates; The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that Caesar?
Page 121 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Page 70 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.