 | George Vandenhoff - 1847 - 400 sider
...general shout ! I do believe, that these applauses are For some new honors that are heap'd on Csesar. Cos. — Why; man, he doth bestride the narrow world,...Colossus ; and we, petty men, Walk under his huge legs, and peep about, To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some times are masters of their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 568 sider
...such a feeble temper9 should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. [Shotit. Flourish. Bru. Another general shout ! I do believe,...applauses are For some new honours that are heap'd on Cresar. Gas. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 sider
...In the play, one of the aspiring tyrannicides, Cassius, addresses Brutus in lines of memorable envy: 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. So Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Ligarius,... | |
 | John Gillies - 1994 - 312 sider
...o' th' world' (3.1.49-50), and in Julius Caesar, where Caesar is explicitly imagined as a Colossus: 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. (1.2.136-9) The reappearance of this type... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 sider
...BRUTUS: I do believe that these applauses are For some new honors that are heaped on 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 dishonorable graves. (1.2.133) In the famous forum speeches this... | |
 | Ulrich Weisstein - 1994 - 296 sider
...Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. During the second scene of the first act he hears Cassius say to Brutus: 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... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 sider
...strange eruptions are. 1, iii, 76-8 A 'colossus' who destroys all hope of honour in his fellow citizens: 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. His tyranny, more moral than political,... | |
 | William J. Leonard, Williams J. S. J. Leonard - 1995 - 364 sider
...are museums, in one of them a statue of Constantino, now in fragments, so huge it recalled the lines, 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. The other parts of the museum would not... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 sider
...his attack until, at Brutus' reaction to another offstage shout, Cassius' voice rises to the fury of: 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. (134-137) This great metaphor is stark,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 sider
...shout! I do believe that these applauses are For some new honours that are heapt on Cœsar. CASSIUS. erland, What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty Give Richard leave to live till Richard die? legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their... | |
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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,... 
