| George Eliot - 2004 - 744 psl.
...224 BCE. There is an echo here of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1623), Act 1, Scene 2, lines 133-35: "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world/ Like...under his huge legs, and peep about/ To find ourselves dishonorable graves." Controlled bleeding and raising of blisters, treatments associated with the outmoded... | |
| Larissa Z. Tiedens, Colin Wayne Leach - 2004 - 386 psl.
...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...under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. (Shakespeare, 1599/1934, p. 41) These words show an important quality of envy.... | |
| Mark Zepezauer - 2004 - 198 psl.
...Two: Big Business Breaks FOOP STAMPS Tax Avoidance by Transnationals ($137.2 billion a year) UUhy. man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus,...under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves."1 Cassius's description of Caesar is hard to beat for giving the flavor of how... | |
| Richard Holmes - 2009 - 376 psl.
...the Americans.8 The words Shakespeare put in the mouth of thoroughly modern Cassius spring to mind: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like...dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fate: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings.9 Cassius... | |
| Ernest Schanzer - 2005 - 216 psl.
...Caesar's greatness dwarfs his own achievements, and makes it impossible for him to gain glory and renown. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (1.2.135-8) 'Honour', a word which occupies the same central position in this play as does 'honesty'... | |
| Nicholas Brooke - 2005 - 240 psl.
...again on the shouts off-stage - and Cassius completes his peroration with a superbly grotesque image: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (133-6) The movement from the Marlowan 'Like a Colossus' to the physical particularity of 'huge legs'... | |
| William Shakespeare - 2005 - 292 psl.
...shout! I do believe that these applauses are 140 For some new honors that are heaped on Caesar. CASSIUS Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. 145 Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not... | |
| John Phillips - 2005 - 244 psl.
...the plot to murder Julius Caesar, Shakespeare has Cassius complain to Brutus, Caesar's close friend: Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. But Caesar, as ambitious as he was, was nothing compared with what the Antichrist... | |
| Cecil Scott Burgess - 2005 - 444 psl.
...to realise the vigour of old Rome, we are reminded of Cassius' description of Julius Caesar He doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus, and we...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. We are a great people and live in a great time, but let us remember ' there have been others. There... | |
| Syd Pritchard - 2005 - 149 psl.
...achieve greatness, And some have greatness thrust upon 'em. [Twelfth Night II v 130] Captain titanic Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...petty men walk under his huge legs And peep about Tojind ourselves dishonourable graves. [Julius Caesar I ii 1 34] Captain pretentious Dressed in a little... | |
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