 | American literature - 1884 - 918 pages
...that facility that sometime it was necessary he should be stop'd : suj/itnninandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would...been so too! Many times he fell into those things that could not escape laughter. As when he said in the person of Csesar, one speaking to him, ' Ca-sar,... | |
 | 1911 - 858 pages
...composition (when the necessity for "stopping" could only be pointed out by a critic later) is unimportant. "His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it...been so too! Many times he fell Into those things that could not escape laughter" ("sad stuff In Shakespeare," said George III. to Fanny Burney), and... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...sometime it was necessary he should be stopp'd: Sufflaminandus erat ["he was to be checked"], as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would...been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou... | |
 | John Henderson, John Graham Wilmot Henderson - History - 1998 - 376 pages
...would have it, writing Caesar turns on disavowed will to power. 2 MIGHT IS WRIT As when [Shakespeare] said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,...he replied: 'Caesar did never wrong but with just cause.'30 The most obvious place to look for Caesar's missing letter is not in the putative preliminary... | |
 | James Bednarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 358 pages
...power;" Jonson writes, "would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter: As when he said in the...just cause: and such like; which were ridiculous" (8:584). Jonson recalled this line again a decade after Shakespeare's death, still relishing its humour... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 500 pages
...that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would...been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter: as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar thou... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 196 pages
...first printed in Discoveries (1640), to the players' boast that Shakespeare "never blotted out line": His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it...been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter: as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him: "Caesar thou... | |
 | H. N. Gibson - 1962 - 344 pages
...that facility, that sometime it was necessary he should be stopp'd; Suffluminandus erat; as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would...been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him; Caesar thou... | |
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