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Page 334
... Octavius ? And yet we must confess that even this wretch , on the score of humanity , recommends himself to us beside the corpse of Cæsar more than even the noble Brutus . Like Brutus , he was the friend of Cæsar ; to him also Cæsar had ...
... Octavius ? And yet we must confess that even this wretch , on the score of humanity , recommends himself to us beside the corpse of Cæsar more than even the noble Brutus . Like Brutus , he was the friend of Cæsar ; to him also Cæsar had ...
Page 354
... Octavius and Antony , and in the description of Antony's despair in the fourth act , Shakespeare enlarged the meagre historical notices with all poetic freedom and extension . For the most part , however , as in Julius Cæsar , he found ...
... Octavius and Antony , and in the description of Antony's despair in the fourth act , Shakespeare enlarged the meagre historical notices with all poetic freedom and extension . For the most part , however , as in Julius Cæsar , he found ...
Page 363
... Octavius , who even then treated him , the elder in politics and war , with haughtiness ; in whose vicinity his genius ( that is , the practical , actively disposed part of his genius ) felt itself oppressed , before whom his courage ...
... Octavius , who even then treated him , the elder in politics and war , with haughtiness ; in whose vicinity his genius ( that is , the practical , actively disposed part of his genius ) felt itself oppressed , before whom his courage ...
Page 364
... Octavius ; as Cæsar in his pride disclaims fear , so Antony pays no attention to the loud voice within him , when his presumption and self - conceit return , as soon as he is absent from Octavius . With regard , on the other side , to ...
... Octavius ; as Cæsar in his pride disclaims fear , so Antony pays no attention to the loud voice within him , when his presumption and self - conceit return , as soon as he is absent from Octavius . With regard , on the other side , to ...
Page 365
... Octavius once more ; he catches at the sister of his enemy as at a new staff , only to procure peace and repose , and scope for enjoyments . His imitation of Hercules or Bacchus refers to this trait ; he leans against a tutelar god ...
... Octavius once more ; he catches at the sister of his enemy as at a new staff , only to procure peace and repose , and scope for enjoyments . His imitation of Hercules or Bacchus refers to this trait ; he leans against a tutelar god ...
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Page 296 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 64 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 6 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity...
Page 365 - Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, But bid farewell, and go : when you sued staying Then was the time for words ; no going then : Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows...
Page 295 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted! but, alas, I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.
Page 639 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself.
Page 347 - O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 341 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 328 - 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.
Page 140 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I have bad dreams.