 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 418 Seiten
...honors that are heap'd on Caesar. Cos. 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 dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus,... | |
 | Dean Keith Simonton - 1994 - 518 Seiten
...addresses Brutus in lines of memorable envy: 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. So Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Ligarius, and Marcus and Decius... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 1993 - 300 Seiten
...honors that are heaped on Caesar. CASSIUS: 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 dishonorable graves. (1.2.133) In the famous forum speeches this second voice is taken over... | |
 | William J. Leonard, Williams J. S. J. Leonard - 1995 - 364 Seiten
...fragments, so huge it recalled the lines, 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 dishonorable graves. The other parts of the museum would not be open until two o'clock, the... | |
 | Jean-Pierre Maquerlot - 1995 - 220 Seiten
...hope of honour in his fellow citizens: 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. His tyranny, more moral than political, teaches the Romans servility... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 Seiten
...shout, Cassius' voice rises to the fury of: 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. (134-137) This great metaphor is stark, vivid, dramatic. It jolts us... | |
 | J. Leeds Barroll - 1995 - 304 Seiten
...represented by the rise of Caesar, remarks, Why, man, he doth destride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves (1.2.136-139) The attenuated gaze of the "petty men" who "peep about"... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 1995 - 292 Seiten
...from republican to imperial status: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, as we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves, (i. ii. 136-39) Hazlitt's Shakespearean representation of Napoleon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 Seiten
...honours that are heapt on Cœsar. CASSIUS. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; hard leave to live till Richard die? You make a leg, and ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus,... | |
 | Stuart Shanker - 2003 - 508 Seiten
...G. Sbanker ++ I DESCARTES' DOMINION .*^ 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. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus,... | |
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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. 
