 | John Gillies - 1994 - 312 sidor
...o' th' world' (3.1.49-50), and in Julius Caesar, where Caesar is explicitly imagined as a Colossus: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (1.2.136-9) The reappearance of this type of image - most obviously in Cleopatra's vision of Antony... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 sidor
...BRUTUS: I do believe that these applauses are 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. (1.2.133) In the famous forum speeches this second voice is taken over temporarily... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 sidor
...his attack until, at Brutus' reaction to another offstage shout, Cassius' voice rises to the fury of: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. (134-137) This great metaphor is stark, vivid, dramatic. It jolts us for it is double. Caesar is first... | |
 | Simon Callow - 1995 - 686 sidor
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 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 sidor
...strange eruptions are. 1, iii, 76-8 A 'colossus' who destroys all hope of honour in his fellow citizens: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. His tyranny, more moral than political, teaches the Romans servility in defiance of their ancestral... | |
 | William J. Leonard, Williams J. S. J. Leonard - 1995 - 364 sidor
...are museums, in one of them a statue of Constantino, now in fragments, so huge it recalled the lines, Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. The other parts of the museum would not be open until two o'clock, the guard told... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - 1995 - 304 sidor
...new, imperial political idiom represented by the rise of Caesar, remarks, Why, man, he doth destride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves (1.2.136-139) The attenuated gaze of the "petty men" who "peep about" also offers a contrast with the... | |
 | Peter Smith - 1996 - 276 sidor
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world. Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. 
