 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...of my story. — I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life : but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Ciusar ; so were you : We both have fed as well ; and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...of my story. — I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life : but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to 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... | |
 | Derek Traversi - Literary Criticism - 1963 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 750 pages
...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... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 230 pages
...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?... | |
 | Timothy Hampton - History - 1990 - 332 pages
...of self-admiration: I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but for my single self, I had as lief not be 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... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - History - 1996 - 363 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...of my story. — I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, lf Drawn in the flattering table of her eye. such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Czsar; so were you: We both have fed as well; and we can... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 248 pages
...subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life ; but for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of sudi a thing as I myself. I was born free as Caesar, so were you; We both have fed as well, and we... | |
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I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. 
