 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 464 trang
...gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. [Shout. Flourish. Bru. Another...the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men a The use of arrive without the preposition has an example In the later writings of Milton : — \Valk... | |
 | John Gillies - 1994 - 312 trang
...o' th' world' (3.1.49-50), and in Julius Caesar, where Caesar is explicitly imagined as a Colossus: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (1.2.136-9) The reappearance of this type of image - most obviously in Cleopatra's vision of Antony... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 trang
...In the play, one of the aspiring tyrannicides, Cassius, addresses Brutus in lines of memorable envy: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. So Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Ligarius, and Marcus and Decius Brutus took their places in history... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 trang
...BRUTUS: I do believe that these applauses are For some new honors that are heaped on Caesar. CASSIUS: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...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 temporarily... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 trang
...his attack until, at Brutus' reaction to another offstage shout, Cassius' voice rises to the fury of: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (134-137) This great metaphor is stark, vivid, dramatic. It jolts us for it is double. Caesar is first... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 trang
...strange eruptions are. 1, iii, 76-8 A 'colossus' who destroys all hope of honour in his fellow citizens: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. His tyranny, more moral than political, teaches the Romans servility in defiance of their ancestral... | |
 | William J. Leonard, Williams J. S. J. Leonard - 1995 - 364 trang
...are museums, in one of them a statue of Constantino, now in fragments, so huge it recalled the lines, Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...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 guard told... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - 1995 - 304 trang
...new, imperial political idiom represented by the rise of Caesar, remarks, Why, man, he doth destride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves (1.2.136-139) The attenuated gaze of the "petty men" who "peep about" also offers a contrast with the... | |
 | Alan Schom - 1998 - 948 trang
...1800-1815. I. Title. DC2O3-S36 1997 944.05^92 — dc*i 97-5805 ISBN 0-06-092958-8 (pbk.) 03 0405»/RRD 1098 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time were masters of their fates. E, JULIUS CAESAR . . . I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in... | |
 | Roderick J. Barman - 1999 - 582 trang
...country." 78 In sum, politicians of both ruling parties echoed Cassius's complaint against Julius Caesar: "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like...under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves." 75 Given that by 1872 Pedro II had been ruling for over thirty years, a long... | |
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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 ourselve»dishonourable graves. , Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,... 
