...Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some times are masters of their fates ; The fault, dear Brutus,...ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus — and Cfflsar — what should be in that Caesar ? Why should that name he sounded more than yours ? Write...

...shout ! I do believe that these applauses are For some new honours that are hcap'd on Caesar. CAS. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like...What should be in that Caesar? Why should that name he sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become...

...shout ! I do believe, that these applauses are For some new honours that are heap'd on Cœsar. Cas. tha Cœsar? Why should that name be sounded more than your-. Write them together, yours is as fair...

...bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men "Walk under his huge legs, and peep ahout To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some...in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus, and Csesar : What should be in that Ciesar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them...

...Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. During the second scene of the first act he hears Cassius say to Brutus: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a...of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. Our theatre-goer immediately understands these...

...In the play, one of the aspiring tyrannicides, Cassius, addresses Brutus in lines of memorable envy: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a...peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. So Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Ligarius, and Marcus and Decius Brutus took their places in history...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...