 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 556 pages
...begin to make A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave. 2 A minister of her will. And it is great To do that...never palates more the dung; The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. 3 Enter, to the gates of the monument, PROCULEIUS, CALLUS, and Soldiers. Pro. Caesar sends... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 586 pages
...begin to make A better life : 'Tis paltry to be Caesar ; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave,* A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that...Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggars nurse and Caesar's. Enter, to the Gates of the Manument, PEOCULBIUS, GAXLUS, and Soldiers.... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2004 - 264 pages
...censuring Rome" (V.ii.56-7). And she speaks with the same music of resolution and triumph in her voice: And it is great To do that thing that ends all other...never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. (V.ii.4-8) Cleopatra here renounces the incessant motion of the sublunary world - the ebb... | |
 | Alida Gersie - 1991 - 348 pages
...person to follow Cleopatra's path, when she says: 'My desolation does begin to make a better life. It is great. To do that thing that ends all other...deeds, which shackles accidents and bolts up change.' For it is the certain conviction that one knows what it means to be dead which inspires many a suicide... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 pages
...Caesar; Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will: and it is great [they go To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which...change, Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, 129 The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. Enter PROCULEIUS. As he speaks with CLEOPATRA through the bars,... | |
 | James Howe - 1994 - 290 pages
...begin to make A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will: and it is great To do that...never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. (5.2.1-8) Worldly success, ambition, outward things in general, all are subject to "accident"... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pages
...of grandiosity, or the importance of accident and change in the ambience of suicidal contemplation: 'and it is great To do that thing that ends all other...deeds, Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change.' If a therapist found he was asking himself in what way Birgit Smith, a potentially suicidal patient,... | |
 | Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - 1996 - 346 pages
...very variety and changeability that have constituted her difference from the Roman ethos. She wishes to "do that thing that ends all other deeds, / Which shackles accidents and bolts up change"; at the last she disclaims even her sex: My resolution's placed, and I have nothing Of woman in me;... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...instance, King Lear) presenting it as an evasion of responsibility: 'it is great', says Cleopatra, To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which...never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse, and Caesar's. (5.2.5-8) And when the time comes, urged on by the thought of the indignities to which she... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 202 pages
...the scene) 2 A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar: 3 Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will. And it is great To do that...deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change; 7 Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. Enter Proculeius.... | |
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My desolation does begin to make A better life : Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change;... 
