 Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy — Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue — A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil...  Francis Bacon and His Shakespeare - Page 282by Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophecy, — Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To...And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall hut smile, when they behold Their infants quarter'd by the hands of war : All pity chok'd with custom... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Drama - 2004 - 264 pages
...reveals his true purpose and concludes with a chilling prophecy of civil war, destruction, and revenge: A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war; All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds; And Caesar's spirit, ranging... | |
 | James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...of pity in a "flaming wrath" and to find solace in cruelty. But Antony's prophecy is more universal: A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds. (3.1.263-70) It stems from... | |
 | Macdonald Pearman Jackson, Michael Neill - Literary Collections - 1986 - 580 pages
...granted heavenly grace. 83-4 humming . . . wounds: cf. Julius Caesar, III.i. 260-2: 'wounds . . . / Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips / To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue'; a victim's wounds reputedly bled afresh in the presence of the murderer. And breathe defiance to black... | |
 | Stanley J. Scott - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 334 pages
...Shakespeare sees this civil conflict not as an ordinary war but as the total unleashing of the mob: Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war; All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds; And Caesar's spirit, ranging... | |
 | Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson - Literature - 1994 - 284 pages
...morning. How much more unexpected and astonishing, therefore, is the sudden outburst of the soliloquy: Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity choked with custom of fell deeds. The largely silent reveler... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which, like dumb...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity choked with custom of fell deeds; And Caesar's spirit, ranging... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...its people and its ceremonies, will be spilled all over Rome. Antony's curse "upon the limbs of men," Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful...mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands of war, All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds (III.i.265-9) sounds remarkably... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...VICTIMAGE Reviving blood" (II. ii. 87-8). Antony's soliloquy over Caesar's corpse cites the body's wounds, "Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips / To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue" (III. i. 260-1). He declines to read Caesar's will to the plebeians, lest "they would go and kiss dead... | |
 | Paul Nimmo - Drama - 1996 - 72 pages
...the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy, Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To be the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and... | |
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