 | William Shakespeare - 1843
...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
...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
...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 - 288 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,... | |
 | L. C. Knights, Lionel Charles Knights - 1979 - 308 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 - 214 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 - 309 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 - 108 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 - 365 psl.
...the British Labor movementthe 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... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - 1996 - 368 psl.
...the President, and of the dangerous consequences that may follow a refusal of his request, still 'I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself'." 21 A week later, Humphrey once more turned to Dill for help, this time stating his demand even more... | |
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I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself. 
