The Works of Shakespeare ...Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1902 |
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Pagina ix
... called upon to undertake a task which he was ill fitted to perform . Though politically a failure , from a moral point of view he deserves all honour . Though morally admirable , his great deed was wrong . How then was this morally ...
... called upon to undertake a task which he was ill fitted to perform . Though politically a failure , from a moral point of view he deserves all honour . Though morally admirable , his great deed was wrong . How then was this morally ...
Pagina xiv
... called the third period of the development of Shake- speare's dramatic art . This conclusion is further sup- ported by the internal evidence afforded by the allusions to Cæsar in plays written before 1600. As Portia is a Roman character ...
... called the third period of the development of Shake- speare's dramatic art . This conclusion is further sup- ported by the internal evidence afforded by the allusions to Cæsar in plays written before 1600. As Portia is a Roman character ...
Pagina xxi
... his name is given to the play , we may be pretty certain that , if Brutus had been intended to be the hero , the play would have been called Brutus and not Julius Cæsar , It is an unjustifiable insult to our great poet to INTRODUCTION xxi.
... his name is given to the play , we may be pretty certain that , if Brutus had been intended to be the hero , the play would have been called Brutus and not Julius Cæsar , It is an unjustifiable insult to our great poet to INTRODUCTION xxi.
Pagina xxix
... called away from their books to do in the eyes of the world a great act of violence that seemed imposed upon them by imperious necessity . Hamlet wavered under the burden of the task that he had to fulfil , and postponed it again and ...
... called away from their books to do in the eyes of the world a great act of violence that seemed imposed upon them by imperious necessity . Hamlet wavered under the burden of the task that he had to fulfil , and postponed it again and ...
Pagina xxxiii
... called by Coleridge " the motive - hunting of a motiveless malignity . " The soliloquy of Brutus might almost be described as the motive - hunting of a motiveless benignity . Yet one would think that Brutus had a distinct enough motive ...
... called by Coleridge " the motive - hunting of a motiveless malignity . " The soliloquy of Brutus might almost be described as the motive - hunting of a motiveless benignity . Yet one would think that Brutus had a distinct enough motive ...
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Pagina 111 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle ; I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Pagina 131 - I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Pagina 51 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The Genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council ; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 105 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Pagina 19 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Pagina 104 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer : — Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Pagina 110 - Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad: 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs; For, if you should, O, what would come of it!
Pagina 115 - Ant. Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours, and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever; common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar: When comes such another? 1 Cit. Never, never: — Come away, away: We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors
Pagina 100 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue...
Pagina xxxvii - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.