 | Derek Traversi - Literary Criticism - 1963 - 300 pages
...belittlement colours the speaker's words and is related to its true cause in the revealing conclusion : this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched...bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. [I. ii. 1 15.] Perhaps it is not altogether certain that Cassius might not, in his innermost heart,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1967 - 262 pages
...ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon...but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, 120 And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake; 'tis true, this god did shake; His coward... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...Did from the flames of Troy, upon his shoulders, The old Anchises bear, so, from the waves of Tyber, Did I the tired Caesar. — And this man Is now become...and must bend his body, If Caesar carelessly but nod at him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...says to Brutus: I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. . . . . . . And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A...bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. Caesar, he says to Casca, is: A man no mightier than thyself or me In personal action, yet prodigious... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...Andronicus. The reference to Vergil becomes explicit as Cassius remembers his rescue of Caesar: 1, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon...old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did 1 the tired Caesar. (112-15) In so rhetorically taut and controlled a play, this allusion to Vergil... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Assassination - 1998 - 276 pages
...ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink I' I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon...bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. 97-9 I was born ... as he Though professing 104 point used especially of a promontory or high public... | |
 | Paul N. Siegel - Great Britain - 1986 - 176 pages
...whom Cassius complains (1.2.115— 18) — and his words accurately describe Caesar's behaviour — "This man/ Is now become a god, and Cassius is/ A...his body/ If Caesar carelessly but nod on him." He disregards omens and prophecies and stalks blindly to his doom. As Calphurnia says (2.2.49), his "wisdom... | |
 | Timothy Hampton - History - 1990 - 332 pages
...epic founding of the Roman state: "I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, / Did from the flames of Troy on his shoulder / The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber / Did I the tired Caesar" (1.2.1 12— 15). 's In this formulation Caesar becomes the old father whose force is spent and whose... | |
 | Peter Salovey - Psychology - 1991 - 316 pages
...ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!" I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon...bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. (Shakespeare, 1599/1934, p. 1 1) Clearly, the prime reason why Cassius finds Caesar's elevated status... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 150 pages
...we could arrive the point proposed, 110 Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' Ay, as j£neas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon...so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar; 9 and this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body If Caesar... | |
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The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink... 
