 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 556 pages
...A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave. 2 A minister of her will. And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change ; Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung; The beggar's... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...censuring Rome" (V.ii.56-7). And she speaks with the same music of resolution and triumph in her voice: And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change, Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 430 pages
...alike/ Feeds beast asman; the nobleness of life/ Is to do thus . . . "; and the woman at the ending, "And it is great / To do that thing that ends all other deeds, . . ./ Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, / The beggar's nurse and Caesar's." These imaginings of the... | |
 | Alida Gersie - Performing Arts - 1991 - 348 pages
...person to follow Cleopatra's path, when she says: 'My desolation does begin to make a better life. It is great. To do that thing that ends all other deeds, which shackles accidents and bolts up change.' For it is the certain conviction that one knows what it means... | |
 | James Howe - Buddhism and literature - 1994 - 290 pages
...make A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will: and it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change, Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 482 pages
...of grandiosity, or the importance of accident and change in the ambience of suicidal contemplation: 'and it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change.' If a therapist found he was asking himself in what way Birgit... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...minister of her will. But she will not be Fortune's knave; she reiterates her decision for freedom: ... it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change, This mortal house I'll ruin, Do Caesar what he can. The contest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Generals - 2000 - 404 pages
...A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar— Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will — and it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change, Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, 5.2.0 Enter.... | |
 | Leon Garfield - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 328 pages
...Cleopatra was resolved to die. Securely locked in her monument, she tried to comfort her fearful women. "It is great to do that thing that ends all other deeds; which shackles accidents and bolts up change, which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, the beggar's... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...make A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesarj Not being Fortune, he 's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will: and it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds; Which shackles accidents and bolts up change; Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's... | |
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My desolation does begin to make A better life : Tis paltry to be Caesar; Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, A minister of her will ; And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change;... 
