 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 σελίδες
...girl. Ye 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.}...these applauses are For some new honours that are heaped on Caesar. Cos. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 σελίδες
...man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some times are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 420 σελίδες
...man of such a feeble temper, should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like...under his huge legs, and peep about, To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men, at some time, are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not... | |
 | Susan Mendus - 1988 - 280 σελίδες
...sole function is to further this purpose a * Compare Shakespeare,./u&u Caesar, Act 1 Scene 2: Cassius: 'Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like...peep about to find ourselves dishonourable graves ...' 10 See Dl, 101; £, 149. 11 See/)/, 101: 'this unremitting rage of distinguishing ourselves'.... | |
 | Sara Mack - 1968 - 200 σελίδες
...Augustus, a colossus towering over Rome like that which Cassius describes in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like*...under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves, [1.2] A man raised to divine status who is, nevertheless, all too mortal. The... | |
 | Peter A. Clayton, Martin Price - 1988 - 196 σελίδες
...been one of these drawings that Shakespeare had in mind when he made Cassius say of Julius Caesar: Why. man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about . . . (Julius Caeiar, Act 1. 2, 134-7) This beliet may well have been inspired by a misunderstanding... | |
 | Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr - 1989 - 448 σελίδες
...Juxtaposing the magnitudes of personal identity: Gullivers as personified target audiences Cassias: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (Julius Caesar I, ii, lines 135-138.) Swift's 'allegory' of Gulliver presents four different frameworks,... | |
 | Merrill Jensen, Robert A. Becker, Gordon DenBoer - 1976 - 542 σελίδες
...CASSIUS, as descriptive of the Tyrant JULIUS C^SAR—viz. ACT I. SCENE 3. CASSIUS. ["]Why man—he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves." This, Mr. Russell, I mention, merely to shew, that the orator meant the expression, as nothing but... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Gillies - 1994 - 312 σελίδες
...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... | |
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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 ourselves dishonourable graves. 
