 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 450 psl.
...But for the general. He would be crown'd : How that might change his nature , there 's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,...Crown him? — that; And then , I grant , we put a sting in him , That at his will he may do danger with. Th' abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 psl.
...But for the general. He would be crowned : How that might change his nature, there 's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,...Crown him ? — That— And then, I grant, we put a sting in him That at his will he may do danger with. The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse... | |
 | Michael Steppat - 1980 - 646 psl.
...of Julius Caesar: He would be crowned; How ^ that might change his nature, there ' s the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, And that craves wary walking. Since the quarrel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - 2004 - 264 psl.
...animal imagery that reflects ironically upon his high-minded intentions and noble resolutions. He muses: "It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, / And that craves wary walking" (II.i. 14-15). Worrying about putting a "sting" in Caesar by crowning him, Brutus thinks him "as a... | |
 | Wolfgang Clemen - 1987 - 232 psl.
...But for the general. He would be crown 'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,...that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that;-— 15 And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with. Th1 abuse of greatness... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 psl.
...But for the general. He would be crown'd: — How that might change his nature, there's the question: 3 sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with. Th'abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 426 psl.
...his own behavior in the coming action, for which "to spurne at him" is the final choice. Similarly: It is the bright day, that brings forth the Adder, And that craues wane walking: Crowne him that, . . . (JC ll. fi30-3i, Hinman p. 722I** The comma after "day"... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - 2000 - 332 psl.
...him, But for the general. He would be crown'd: How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,...Crown him? — that; — And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with. Th'abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 248 psl.
...crowned. How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day that brìngs forth the adder, And that craves wary walking. Crown him ! - that! And then, I grant, we put a sting in him That at his will he may do danger with. Th "abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1995 - 866 psl.
...'wicked book' on the authority of the Quarterly Review (?WSW 21.9.1849). 9. Cf. Julius Caesar, II. i. 14, 'It is the bright day that brings forth the adder | And that craves wary walking', and Robert Burns, 'On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland', stanza 1: If there's... | |
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How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with. 
