Story of CæsarAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 173 страници |
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Страница 133 - Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come." But the augurs, who had been consulted,
Страница 127 - Ccesar. Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Antony. Fear him not, Caesar, he's not dangerous. He is a noble Roman, and well given.
Страница 112 - IX. CESAR'S DEATH. O mighty Caesar ! Dost thou lie so low ? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure ? Fare thee well. SHAKESPEARE. But while Caesar was planning and accomplishing great projects for the benefit of his country, a con.spiracy was formed to kill him, and it was carried out in the Senate house itself, on the Ides
Страница 118 - and nearly all in words of the highest praise and admiration. Truly his name is " One of the few, the immortal names That were not born to die." SHAKESPEARE'S STORY OF THE DEATH OF
Страница 141 - You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious.
Страница 145 - Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. * Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbors and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs forever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
Страница 126 - While Cassius was speaking more shouting was heard, whereupon Brutus exclaimed: "Another general shout! I do believe, that these applauses are For some new honors that are heap'd on Caesar." Then Cassius continued the discourse saying that there was nothing in the name
Страница 125 - Caesar; so were you; We both have fed as well; and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he, For once, upon a raw and gusty day, The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, Cassar said to me, ' Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ?
Страница 121 - and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome, And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made a universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To hear the replication of your sounds, Made in her concave shores
Страница 31 - A ROMAN TRIUMPH. Truly a wonderful man was Caius Julius Caesar, "Better be first," he said, "in a little I-be'ri-an village Than be second in Rome." LONGFELLOW. The time for Caesar's glorious actions was, however, approaching. Within a few years after his return from Spain he held, in succession, the offices of