 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 страници
...the Conspiracy against Cesar. — TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CESAR. 1. HONOR is the subject of my story — I cannot tell what you and other men . Think of this life ; but for my single selfj I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as myself. I was born free as Cesar... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1969 - 1646 страници
...which means willing or gladly. Kerr quoted from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar : "I had as lief not to be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself." Kcrr came to Leicester In 1953 from Massachusetts, where he was on the medical staff at Massachusetts... | |
 | Colorado Bar Association - 1912 - 750 страници
...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 nearest approach we have to... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 страници
...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 and must bend his... | |
 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 страници
...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? - the meaning 96 surely... | |
 | Timothy Hampton - 1990 - 332 страници
...admiration. This self-promotion is figured by Cassius in his speech to Brutus as a kind of self-admiration: I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this...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 glory. His description of... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - 1992 - 384 страници
...the British Labor movement—the communist trades unionist Tom Mann was still roaring out in old age: "I had as lief not be as live to be / In awe of such a thing as I myself." 21 For the centenary of US independence in 1875-76, republican sentiments were combined with the nineteenth-century... | |
 | William E. Leuchtenburg - 1996 - 363 страници
...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 stating his demand even more... | |
 | Richard Courtney - 1995 - 274 страници
...freedom — specifically with freedom from Caesar. Cassius is totally sincere in his belief that he had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself (95-96) because he was "born as free as Caesar." Brutus' ignorance of Cassius' manipulation makes him... | |
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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. 
