 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" (5.5.68-75) This explains why Cassius needs Brutus among... | |
 | Nick Tosches - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 296 pages
...over the grave, and on that stone heart he wanted there to be carved a drum and words of pride. HIS LIFE WAS GENTLE, AND THE ELEMENTS SO MIX'D IN HIM, THAT NATURE MIGHT STAND UP AND SAY TO ALL THE WORLD, "THIS WAS A MAN!" Both his sons had been taken from him. He himself was now... | |
 | New-England Historic - New England - 1998 - 604 pages
...high ideals of Christian character, and whose emulation cannot but be fraught with blessing. " His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man ! " — Shakespeare, Julius Cxsar. LIST OF PRINCIPAL PUBLISHED... | |
 | Peter Dennis Bathory, Nancy Lynn Schwartz - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 340 pages
...they are to receive their due. At the end of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Antony says of Brutus: His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world: "This was a man!" Unfortunately nature does not speak, and the few who are... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" —(5.5.6) Peter J. Leithart discerns that Brutus represents... | |
 | David H. Levy - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 326 pages
...Notes 269 Selected Bibliography 285 Index 297 PREFACE This was the noblest Roman of them all: . . . His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!" — SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar, 1599 IT NOT for the fate... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of Brutus, Marcus Buckingham, Duke of His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up. And say to all the world, 'This was a man!' (vv) In September 1599, a Swiss traveller records that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...there found and a passage in Jul. Csss. [In the notes to the passage to which Collier refers, 'His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man,'— V, v, 85, will be found the opinions of Malone, Steevens,... | |
 | Genealogy - 1909 - 730 pages
...star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light. — Fletcher. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man ! — Shakespeare. How beautiful it is for man to die Upon... | |
 | James Bednarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 358 pages
.... . . did more than make a man, when she made him," echoes Antony's praise of the dead Brutus: "His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, 'This was a man!' " (5.5.73-75). 21 But in converting Antony's elegy into... | |
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His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man! 
