The English of Shakespeare: Illustrated in a Philological Commentary on His Julius CaesarGinn and Heath, 1880 - 386 pages |
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... death , is the day dedicated to St. George the Martyr , the patron saint of England . His father was John Shakespeare ; his mother , Mary Arderne , or Arden . The Ardens were among the oldest of the county gentry ; many of the ...
... death , is the day dedicated to St. George the Martyr , the patron saint of England . His father was John Shakespeare ; his mother , Mary Arderne , or Arden . The Ardens were among the oldest of the county gentry ; many of the ...
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... death , in a folio volume . A second edition , with numerous verbal alterations , but no additional Plays , was brought out in the same form in 1632. In 1664 appeared a third edition , also in folio , containing seven additional Plays ...
... death , in a folio volume . A second edition , with numerous verbal alterations , but no additional Plays , was brought out in the same form in 1632. In 1664 appeared a third edition , also in folio , containing seven additional Plays ...
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... death , but apparently from another manuscript than that used for the First Folio . For the remaining eighteen Plays our oldest authority is that edition . And the only other sources for which any authority has been claimed are , 1. The ...
... death , but apparently from another manuscript than that used for the First Folio . For the remaining eighteen Plays our oldest authority is that edition . And the only other sources for which any authority has been claimed are , 1. The ...
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... death , of all the men i ' the world . — iv . 5 . Had we no quarrel else to Rome , but that - Thou art thence banished , we would muster all . — iv . 5 . You have holp to ravish your own daughters , and To melt the city leads upon your ...
... death , of all the men i ' the world . — iv . 5 . Had we no quarrel else to Rome , but that - Thou art thence banished , we would muster all . — iv . 5 . You have holp to ravish your own daughters , and To melt the city leads upon your ...
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... Death of Julius Cæsar ; " other en- tries in the list being , among the Histories , " The Life and Death of King John , " " The Life and Death of Richard the Third , " " The Life of King Henry the Eighth , " and , among the Tragedies ...
... Death of Julius Cæsar ; " other en- tries in the list being , among the Histories , " The Life and Death of King John , " " The Life and Death of Richard the Third , " " The Life of King Henry the Eighth , " and , among the Tragedies ...
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accent annotator Antony and Cleopatra appear bear blood Brutus Cæs called Capitol Casca Cassius Chaucer Cinna Collier common commonly Compare conjecture Coriolanus death Decius dissyllable doth Dyce English Enter Exeunt expression fear formerly French give Hamlet hand hath hear heart hemistich Henry honor Hudson ides of March instance Julius Cæsar King language Latin lethe look lord Lucilius Lucius Macbeth Malone Mark Antony meaning Merchant of Venice merely Messala Milton misprint modern editors Nares night noble notion Octavius old copies original edition original text passage perhaps Philippi phrase Pindarus Plutarch Portia printed probably pronoun prosody reading regard remarkable Roman Rome Saxon SCENE Second Folio seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shrew signifying speak speare speech stage direction stand Steevens substantive syllable thee thing thou tion Titinius Titus Andronicus verb verse White Winter's Tale word writers
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Page 95 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry ' Havoc ! ' and let slip the dogs of war ; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Page 63 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 109 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 99 - tis his will. Let but the commons hear this testament (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read). And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Page 98 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome. Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill : Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.
Page 100 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent That day he overcame the Nervii :l — Look ! in this place ran Cassius...
Page 108 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What ! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 62 - We both have fed as well ; and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he. For once, upon a raw and gusty day, The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, Caesar said to me, Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into' this angry flood. And swim to yonder point t Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did.
Page 221 - And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 110 - Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is aweary of the world ; Hated by one he loves...