 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...hand of Brutus! Then, as Lucius goes off once more to see who is knocking at the gate in the darkness: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. The indications here — the insomnia, the fact that Brutus is, as he has said earlier, 'with himself... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - English drama - 1979 - 204 pages
...batters down himself. (Troilus and Cresfida, 2.3.181-7) Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (Julius Caesar, 2.1.63-9) Or these two moments of farewell : Injurious Time, now with a robber's haste,... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...trigger has been pulled. Let us now see the passage in full: 'Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' [Julius Caesar II. 1.63) There is no ubiquitous psychopathology of homicide. 'Between the acting of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...wasted fifteen days. [Knock within. MARCUS BRUTUS. 'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks, [Ежа heed, And give him light that it was blinded by. Study...won, Save base authority from others' books. These Enter LUCIUS. LUCIUS. Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. Is he... | |
 | Jonathan Baldo - Drama - 1996 - 228 pages
...generalizers, though what this speech lacks of Hamlet is a suspicion of the generalizing turn of mind: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) The generalizing rhetoric of this speech subtly counteracts the problem it describes. The... | |
 | Peter J. Leithart - Christianity and literature. - 1996 - 288 pages
...(1.2.40), that he is "with himself at war" (1.2.46). Later, after Cassius's intense recruitment, he muses, Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (2.1.61-69) We cannot imagine that Cassius lost any sleep or that he would have called the assassination... | |
 | B. C. Southam - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...dance has become a modern infertility dance. 11.72-90: cf. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (Julius Caesar n, i, see note ii, page 2.04) But there may have been a more immediate allusion. Eliot... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...Jefferson Davis, and Alexander Stephens Survey the Crisis Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. — William Shakespeare The Civil War, the Gettysburg Address tells us, was a test whether popular... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...again.' He thus forcibly describes a conceived intention: 'Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,...kingdom suffers then The nature of an insurrection.' Elsewhere he says: 'The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power.' Adding: "Tis a... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 260 pages
...overt one that we see. Brutus acknowledges the decisiveness of his commitment though he feels its cost: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I...kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. (lines 61-9) In this he is like Macbeth, but he himself is the dagger of the mind, to be held by another.... | |
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Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar I have not slept 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... 
