 | Betsy Bolton - 2001 - 298 sider
...of the female Colossus. The echo of Julius Caesar here salaciously reframed Young's investigations: 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. (1.2.135-38) The thought of what Young... | |
 | Colin Martin, Geoffrey Parker - 1999 - 324 sider
...October 1585; CSPV, 123, Gradinegro to Venice, 25 October 1585. Xi The Grand Design and its architect Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs Shakespeare's lines on Julius Caesar might well be applied to Philip II, for after 1580 he governed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 sider
...shout! I do believe that these applauses are For some new honours that are heapt on Cassar. CASSIUS. es, plotted, KING RICHARD THE SECOND IV. I. 131-183 And lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 600 sider
...interrupted Cassius. Brutus expressed the fear that new honors were being heaped on Caesar. Cassius replied: 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 dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates:... | |
 | John O. Whitney, Tina Packer - 2002 - 321 sider
...them all, could be tempted by power. Cassius stirs up Brutus's indignation toward Caesar by saying: 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. JULIUS CAESAR (1.2, 133-36) Cassius continues... | |
 | David Mahony - 2003 - 296 sider
...to bring Brutus into the plot. Two views showing ruins of Roman forum The play Commentary CASSIUS: 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. Men at some time are masters of their fates:... | |
 | Frank Julian Philips - 2003 - 188 sider
...soraething is nothing, or the contrary. I quote a passage from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar'. Cassius: "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. Men at some time our masters of their... | |
 | Murray Pomerance - 2004 - 324 sider
...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 Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates:... | |
 | Jean-Claude Koven - 2004 - 454 sider
..."Let me offer instead Julius Caesar — liberally paraphrased, I might add, by William Shakespeare: 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 dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates:... | |
 | Larissa Z. Tiedens, Colin Wayne Leach - 2004 - 386 sider
...Cassius, a literary prototype of the envying person, as he protests the honors being heaped on Caesar: 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 dishonorable graves. (Shakespeare, 1599/1934, p. 41) These words... | |
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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. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,... 
