 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 psl.
...as I love The name of honour more than I fear death. Cas. I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward favour. Well, honour...be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Ciesar ; so were you : We both have fed as well ; and we can both Endure the winter's cold... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 psl.
...as I love The name of honour more than I fear death. Cas. I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward favour. Well, honour...be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caesar, so were you ; We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 psl.
...as I love The name of honour more than I fear death. Cas. I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward favour. Well, honour...be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caesar, so were you ; We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as... | |
 | Derek Traversi - 1963 - 300 psl.
...aims are admirably interwoven in the development of the long speech from its significant preface : I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. [I. ii. 95.] The implied criticism of Caesar as 'a thing', inflated beyond the proportions of common humanity,... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1912 - 750 psl.
...there be a rabble, we all belong to it. To fear mob rule in America is to tremble at one's own shadow. "I had as lief not' be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself." We have always denied the need and the existence of a ruling class. The nearest approach we have to... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 psl.
...only too personal. What nags at him is simply envy of Caesar: 'for my single self, he says to Brutus: I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. . . . . . . And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature and must bend his... | |
 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 psl.
...Spenser and Irving Ribner - take the same view.65 After all, Cassius, who was no philosopher, said: I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. (Julius Caesar, 1.2.95-6) To a groundling - and why should we neglect him? - the meaning 96 surely... | |
 | Timothy Hampton - 1990 - 332 psl.
...admiration. This self-promotion is figured by Cassius in his speech to Brutus as a kind of self-admiration: I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this...as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. (1-2.93-96) Like Montaigne's Cato, Caesar becomes the spectator of his own glory. His description of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 150 psl.
...me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death. I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, 90 I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this...be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caesar; so were you; We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 psl.
...the British Labor movement—the communist trades unionist Tom Mann was still roaring out in old age: "I had as lief not be as live to be / In awe of such a thing as I myself." 21 For the centenary of US independence in 1875-76, republican sentiments were combined with the nineteenth-century... | |
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I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself. 
